Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce, UK tabloid asks in Twitter post
A British newspaper on Friday pitted Liz Truss in a race against a lettuce, asking readers if they thought the under-fire UK prime miner would lose her job before the vegetable decayed.
The tabloid Daily Star set up a live feed of an unrefrigerated iceberg next to a photo of Truss.
“Which wet lettuce will last longer?,” it asked in a Twitter post showing the feed that had garnered over 50,000 likes in its first five hours online.
Is Liz Truss more sturdy than a wet lettuce?
The nation is about to find out 👀#LizVsLettuce pic.twitter.com/OvCdJ3f7ZT
— Daily Star (@dailystar) October 14, 2022
The stunt echoed a comment at the other end of Britain’s journalic spectrum. In a column published this week titled “The Iceberg Lady”, the Econom magazine described Truss as having “the shelf-life of a lettuce”.Truss on Friday fired her finance miner, Kwasi Kwarteng, after just 38 days in office.
The duo have been under mounting pressure to reverse a disastrously received economic package that forced the Bank of England to intervene in the bond market and prompted Conservative Party colleagues to openly discuss whether they should be replaced.
