The Liz Truss Lettuce was a 2022 media stunt featuring a livestream of an iceberg lettuce to satirize the brief tenure of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, symbolically competing with her to see which would “last” longer. The lettuce was declared “victorious” when Truss resigned after just 45 days.
The prank started on October 14th when British tabloid newspaper the ‘Daily Star’ began a livestream of an iceberg lettuce next to a framed photograph of Truss, who was appointed prime minister the previous month. This act followed an opinion piece in ‘The Economist’ that compared the expected brevity of her premiership to the shelf life of a head of lettuce. With the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis occurring weeks into her tenure, many political commentators opined that Truss’s resignation was imminent. She announced her resignation on October 20th, before the lettuce had wilted.
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