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CNN Business
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The BBC has taken a swipe at outgoing UK Prime Minister Liz Truss — with a bit assist from Rihanna.
After a six-week premiership riddled with crises, Truss resigned on Thursday, making her the shortest-serving top minister within the United Kingdom’s historical past.
Just hours after Truss introduced her departure, the BBC’s Newsnight program broadcast a video montage, later shared on Twitter, summing up her disastrous month and a part in Downing Street. The clip is pointedly overlaid with Rihanna’s 2008 hit “Take a Bow”
The music comprises barbs equivalent to “you look so dumb right now” and “now it’s time to go, curtain’s finally closing.”
Other British information shops couldn’t face up to poking a laugh on the state of affairs.
Channel 4 information broadcast any other montage of Truss to the Taylor Swift vintage ‘Blank Space,’ which is reportedly some of the baby-kisser’s favourite songs.
As Truss’ time in workplace descended into chaos, tabloid newspaper the Daily Star started livestreaming a lettuce, asking whether or not it could arrange to out survive the top minister. On day seven, the lettuce received.
Truss’ fast downfall began in overdue September after she and her then-finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng introduced a plan for £45 billion ($50 billion) price of unfunded tax cuts to assist develop the United Kingdom economic system.
The announcement tanked the worth of the pound, despatched the rustic’s bond marketplace right into a frenzy, and threatened to hike loan charges for hundreds of thousands of other people.
The turmoil compelled Truss right into a humiliating climbdown, reversing the vast majority of her plan.
