Liz Truss
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022
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| 2024 | Loses her seat in the general election, ending her tenure as MP for South West Norfolk. |
| 2024 | Loses her parliamentary seat in the general election. |
| December 2024 | Her resignation honours list was released, coinciding with the 2024 New Year Honours. |
| October 2024 | The Tesco branch in Walthamstow where the original lettuce was purchased is memorialized with a mock blue plaque commemorating the lettuce lasting longer than Truss's prime ministership, which was subsequently removed by supermarket managers. |
| August 13 2024 | While promoting her memoirs in Beccles, Suffolk, Truss left the stage after the campaign group Led By Donkeys unfurled a banner featuring a lettuce and the text 'I crashed the economy'. Truss described this stunt as 'not funny'. |
| July 4 2024 | Lost her seat in the general election to Labour challenger Terry Jermy, despite defending a majority of over 26,000. |
| April 2024 | Her memoirs 'Ten Years to Save the West' were published, and she gave a speech to the Institute for Government think tank blaming 'groupthink' for the collapse of her premiership. |
| April 2024 | During an interview with BBC journalist Chris Mason, Truss further criticized the lettuce meme, describing it as 'pathetic point-scoring' and a preoccupation of the 'London elite'. |
| April 2024 | Gave a speech to the Institute for Government think tank, blaming 'groupthink' for the collapse of her premiership. |
| April 26 2024 | GB News presenters Tom Harwood and Emily Carver unveiled a lettuce decorated to resemble Humza Yousaf during the Scottish government crisis, dubbed 'Humza Yousleaf' |
| February 2024 | Co-launched the Popular Conservatism group with Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lee Anderson, and Priti Patel, and spoke at its inaugural event. |
| October 2023 | Held the 'Great British Growth Rally' event at the Conservative Party Conference, attended by hundreds of party members. |
| October 10 2023 | At the Labour Party Conference, Starmer jokes about the lettuce again, saying 'I never thought I'd say this but I'm beginning to see why Liz Truss won. Although I still think we'd be better off with that lettuce.' |
| September 2023 | Announced her memoirs 'Ten Years to Save the West', which would be published in April 2024. |
| August 2023 | Submitted her list of resignation honours. |
| June 19 2023 | Liz Truss broke her silence about the 'lettuce meme' during a visit to Northern Ireland, publicly commenting on the incident in an interview with RTÉ journalist David McCullagh. She called the meme 'puerile' and not funny. |
| March 15 2023 | Keir Starmer makes a humorous reference to the lettuce during PMQs, saying 'The lettuces may be out, but the turnips are in' |
| February 2023 | Truss wrote that she was not given a 'realistic chance' to enact her policies, criticizing the 'powerful economic establishment' and lack of support from her own party. |
| February 2023 | Truss was reselected as the Conservative candidate for South West Norfolk. |
| January 2023 | The Lincoln Project used the Liz Truss lettuce meme to mock Kevin McCarthy during the United States House of Representatives Speaker election |
| 2022 | Called Saudi Arabia an ally of the UK while simultaneously not condoning its policies on human rights and women's treatment. |
| 2022 | Truss condemned the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghur people as 'genocide' and called for reducing economic dependency on China and Russia. |
| 2022 | Railway strikes occurred throughout the summer and autumn, involving the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), challenging the government over issues of pay, redundancies, and changes to working conditions amid the cost of living crisis. |
| 2022 | During the July leadership election, Truss admitted she was 'wrong' about her previous stance on Brexit and was prepared to acknowledge this. |
| November 2022 | An independent think tank, Resolution Foundation, estimated that the Truss government was responsible for £30bn of the £60bn fiscal hole that needs to be addressed. |
| November 14 2022 | During I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, presenters Ant & Dec introduced a lettuce named Spud, humorously asking which would last longer between the lettuce and MP Matt Hancock |
| November 9 2022 | During Prime Minister's Questions, a Labour backbench MP shouts 'bring the lettuce back!' |
| November 5 2022 | The Edenbridge Bonfire Society burns an effigy of Truss alongside a laughing lettuce on Guy Fawkes Night, featuring a box with references to her short tenure as Prime Minister |
| October 2022 | Bookmakers began taking odds on the date of Liz Truss's potential resignation, with Rishi Sunak emerging as the most likely successor. |
| October 2022 | A Redfield & Wilton poll recorded Truss's personal approval rating at a low 9%, with Labour holding a 36% lead - the largest since October 1997. |
| October 2022 | A YouGov poll revealed 77% of Britons disapproved of the Conservative government, the highest disapproval rating in eleven years. |
| October 25 2022 | Truss officially resigned as prime minister, marking her 50th day in office and making her the UK's shortest-serving prime minister. |
| October 25 2022 | Truss advised the King to appoint Rishi Sunak as the new prime minister, formally concluding her brief time in office. |
| October 24 2022 | Rishi Sunak succeeded Truss as leader of the Conservative Party. |
| October 21 2022 | Daily Star publishes a 'historic souvenir edition' with the headline 'Lettuce rejoice', celebrating the metaphorical defeat of Truss by a livestreamed lettuce |
| October 20 2022 | Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister, sparking the 'Lettuce vs Truss' media phenomenon |
| October 20 2022 | Liz Truss announced her resignation as prime minister, before the livestreamed lettuce had wilted, leading the Daily Star to declare the lettuce 'victorious'. |
| October 20 2022 | Truss resigns as Prime Minister after just 45 days in office, making her the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history. |
| October 20 2022 | Announces her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party due to mounting criticism and loss of leadership confidence. |
| October 19 2022 | A contentious vote on a Labour motion about fracking took place, with significant confusion among Conservative MPs. The motion was ultimately defeated 326-230, with 324 Conservative MPs voting against it. |
| October 19 2022 | Suella Braverman resigns as Home Secretary after admitting to using her personal email for a Cabinet document, with her resignation letter being critical of Truss's government. |
| October 19 2022 | In response to Keir Starmer, Truss claimed she was a 'fighter and not a quitter', quoting a 2001 Peter Mandelson phrase, despite growing political pressure. |
| October 18 2022 | Daily Star runs a headline 'Lettuce Liz on Leaf Support' and enhances the livestream by adding googly eyes, a blonde wig, fake feet, hands, and glasses to the lettuce. |
| October 14 2022 | The Daily Star began a livestream of an iceberg lettuce next to a framed photograph of Liz Truss, mockingly comparing her political tenure to the shelf life of a lettuce. |
| October 14 2022 | Jeremy Vine began a livestream comparing a lettuce to Liz Truss's short-lived tenure as Prime Minister on Channel 5 |
| October 14 2022 | Truss dismissed Kwarteng as Chancellor and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt, marking a significant shift in her government's leadership and economic strategy. |
| October 11 2022 | The Economist publishes a column comparing Truss's short tenure to the 'shelf-life of a lettuce', dubbing her the 'Iceberg Lady' in contrast to Margaret Thatcher's 'Iron Lady' nickname. |
| October 10 2022 | Criminal barristers voted to end their strike after reaching a deal with Justice Secretary Brandon Lewis during Liz Truss's premiership, resolving a dispute that began during her predecessor's term. |
| October 3 2022 | Truss instructed Kwarteng to reverse the abolition of the 45 per cent income tax additional rate, beginning to unwind her initial economic policies. |
| September 2022 | Truss made historic cabinet appointments, creating the first British government where no white men held the Great Offices of State, including Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor, James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary, and Suella Braverman as Home Secretary. |
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