Britain | Revenge of the institutions

A brush with the bond markets reorders British politics

Liz Truss plainly no longer runs the country. So who does?

Editor’s note: On October 20th Liz Truss resigned as leader of Britain’s Conservative Party and thus will soon depart as prime minister. The party will hold another leadership contest, its third in as many years, to pick her successor within seven days.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Who runs Britain now?”

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