A new live feed by a British tabloid newspaper will let people know if the United Kingdom’s new prime minister will be able to keep her job longer than it takes for a head of lettuce to rot.
The live feed, started on Friday, comes right after Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, on Friday, less than six weeks after he had been brought on for the job. A framed photo of Truss has been placed next to the head of lettuce, which has been donned with googly eyes, to see if Truss will still be prime minister in the next 35 days, which is how long it takes for lettuce to rot, according to the Daily Star.
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“Bookies have given odds of 6-1 for Liz Truss to be replaced faster than it takes for a lettuce to rot,” the outlet said.
Day one: Which wet lettuce will last longer? https://t.co/vReEEeL6jk
— Daily Star (@dailystar) October 14, 2022
Most users on social media have reacted positively to the live feed, seeing it as a joke aimed at the prime minister.
This is the best thing you’ve done since the front page about the woman who ate a whole fridge.
— Sam Farley (@FarleyWrites) October 14, 2022
Brilliant! The Liz Truss v Wet Lettuce live feed!!
— Nick Clark (@NickClarkAlJaz) October 14, 2022
I’m so glad the FTs burn has caught on https://t.co/GZXEfEF5GN
— Tom Verrilli (@tdrobbo) October 14, 2022
Perhaps the most surprising thing about 2022 is the Daily Star turning into Britain’s best paper https://t.co/ln0o69Jq9V
— Alfred Joyner (@alfredjoyner) October 14, 2022
Truss’s unpopularity among U.K. residents comes after she reversed plans to scrap an increase in the corporation tax. Berenberg Bank described Truss’s reversal as “a major humiliation,” adding that it is hard to see her serving as prime minister for much longer given that her “personal mandate is now in tatters,” according to CNBC.
Corporation tax in the U.K. was initially set to increase from 19% to 25% under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Truss’s predecessor. Truss scrapped the plan on Sept. 23, but she has since reversed course and will go forth with the original plan for the tax, according to the outlet.
Truss is now as unpopular as former Prime Minister John Major was after Black Wednesday, when Britain crashed out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, said polling expert Sir John Curtice. She is also now more unpopular than Johnson when his partygate scandal was at its height in early January, he added.
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“She’s got two problems,” Curtice said. “One is she isn’t really liked. Her personality is not one that warms to the general public. And, secondly, now she is regarded as incompetent.”
The livestream started just over a month after Truss took her position as prime minister on Sept. 6. Truss began serving two months after Johnson stepped down from the position in July.
