Liz Truss resigns: Familiar faces, including Johnson, emerge as successors

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has wished Liz Truss well and said that a resolution to the Northern Ireland protocol dispute was now 'ever more urgent'

Ms Turss said she can no longer deliver the mandate for which she was elected leader of the Conservative. Picture: PA

British prime minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation after just 44 days in office. 

In a speech outside 10 Downing Street this afternoon, Ms Truss acknowledged she had lost the confidence of Tory MPs and the public.