21 Oct 2022

Lettuce livestream outlives Liz Truss' time as PM

From Morning Report, 8:16 am on 21 October 2022

A British newspaper pitted Liz Truss in race against a lettuce, and the lettuce has won.

The tabloid Daily Star set up a live feed of an unrefrigerated iceberg next to a photo of Truss and asked in a Twitter post "Which wet lettuce will last longer?" the post later went viral.

The stunt echoed comment by the Economist magazine that in a column titled "The Iceberg Lady" described Truss as having "the shelf-life of a lettuce".

Truss resigned after 45 days in the role, while the lettuce is still going strong.

The Daily Star's Abigail Hunt spoke to Morning Report.