• Lettuce and Prime Minister Liz Truss were pitted against each other in an online vote to see which would perish first.
• The Economist essay that called the leader of the Conservative Party an “iceberg woman” served as the inspiration for the game-changer.

Which wet lettuce will endure the longest was the first query.

The Daily Star newspaper in Britain started streaming an online feed of lettuce on October 14 to see which would perish first: the store-bought green produce or Liz Truss, the country’s struggling prime minister.

The Economist essay that called the leader of the Conservative Party an “iceberg woman” and claimed she had “the shelf-life of a lettuce” served as the inspiration for the action.

A little more than a week later, Truss announced her resignation in the face of mounting opposition and a string of political gaffes. She is now on track to have the shortest tenure as prime minister in the history of the nation.

The opposition leader in the House of Lords, Baroness Smith of Basildon, brought up the topic a day before Truss announced his resignation.

The prime minister’s likely shelf life is shorter than that of lettuce, according to an editorial in The Economist, he added. “How embarrassing is it when the media across the globe catches up on this.”

On Thursday afternoon, more than 12,000 Twitter users were following the feed when Truss announced her resignation in front of the prime minister’s Downing Street residence.

The message “The lettuce has outlasted Liz Truss” appeared after a hand crossed the table and put Truss’s portrait on its back as the audience reached 21,000 viewers. At that point, “God Save the King” rang out.

The Daily Star lettuce has come out victorious in the battle of the year – to see whether it could outlast Prime Minister Liz Truss in #LizVsLettuce

[THREAD] pic.twitter.com/sP7QDgqcfr

— Daily Star (@dailystar) October 20, 2022

“We now go live to 10 Downing Street.” pic.twitter.com/ZdF9UgF4KK

— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) October 20, 2022

Bye, bye @trussliz, congrats to lettuce

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— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) October 20, 2022

The lettuce after outlasting Liz Truss pic.twitter.com/MIn4hqNHZR

— George Civeris (@georgeciveris) October 20, 2022

The lettuce is currently being projected onto the UK House of Commons, the Palace of Westminster, after outlasting Liz Truss. pic.twitter.com/KMUbth5PxC

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 20, 2022

Liz Truss beaten by a lettuce pic.twitter.com/s9f78gT5yH

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— BremainInSpain (@BremainInSpain) October 20, 2022

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