'Ambition greater than ability': Liz Truss’s rise from teen Lib Dem to shortest serving British PM

'I honestly believe she was given jobs – ministerial promotions – just to shut her up.'

Liz Truss has announced she will resign as prime minister. File Picture: PA

Liz Truss has just become the shortest-serving British prime minister in history. 

Long before her chaotic premiership even began, her constituency party members recall a meeting when the question of her entering parliament at all hung in the balance, after she was accused of failing to disclose an extramarital affair to activists.