{"id":176733,"date":"2025-09-29T04:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176733\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:33:06","slug":"the-lettuce-strikes-again-britains-death-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176733\/","title":{"rendered":"The lettuce strikes again, Britain&#8217;s death spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2022, British newspaper The Daily Star began live-streaming a video of a head of lettuce next to a framed photo of then-Prime Minister Liz Truss after The Economist compared the expected duration of her leadership to that of the shelf life of lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>Just weeks later, Truss announced her resignation; she served just 7 weeks in office, the shortest prime ministership in British history.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Star subsequently declared that the lettuce was victorious over Truss, with Truss leaving number 10 before the lettuce had wilted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In October 2022, British newspaper The Daily Star began live-streaming a video of a head of lettuce next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-176733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}