The freshly resigned Liz Truss' run as prime minister wasn't able to outlast a head of lettuce
The Daily Star livestreamed a head of lettuce to see if it would wilt before Truss stepped down

The lettuce celebrates its big win. Screenshot: Daily Star
British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned earlier today, ending her time at the wheel of a slow-motion political car crash that she seemed as befuddled to witness as the rest of us. Truss will go down in official history as the United Kingdom’s shortest-serving PM, but her brief term may be more popularly remembered in simpler terms: She couldn’t outlast a head of lettuce.
LIVE: Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce?
A lettuce livestream was created by The Daily Star, which was in turn inspired by The Economist writing last week that Truss’ only managed to hold onto any real power as PM for about a week, which is “roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce.”