‘Which moist lettuce will last more?’: UK tabloid's viral Twitter ballot | World News

A British newspaper on Friday pitted Liz Truss in a race towards a lettuce, asking readers in the event that they thought the under-fire prime minister would lose her job earlier than the vegetable decayed.

The tabloid Each day Star arrange a stay feed of an unrefrigerated iceberg subsequent to a photograph of Truss.

"Which moist lettuce will last more?," it requested in a Twitter publish exhibiting the feed that had garnered over 50,000 likes in its first 5 hours on-line.

The stunt echoed a remark on the different finish of Britain's journalistic spectrum. In a column revealed this week titled "The Iceberg Woman", the Economist journal described Truss as having "the shelf-life of a lettuce".

Truss's political function mannequin, Nineteen Eighties prime minister Margaret Thatcher, was broadly often called the Iron Woman.

Truss on Friday fired her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, after simply 38 days in workplace.

The duo have been below mounting strain to reverse a disastrously acquired financial bundle that pressured the Financial institution of England to intervene within the bond market and prompted Conservative Get together colleagues to brazenly talk about whether or not they need to get replaced.