Former Margaret Thatcher aide says that British PM Liz Truss 'surrendered to the left'

Former Margaret Thatcher aide and Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation says that Liz Truss's brief time as prime minister was a disappointment. 

The United Kingdom prime minister announced her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday after only being in office for 45 days. She said she will remain as prime minister until her party chooses a new leader. 

"The Liz Truss premiership has been a huge disappointment and basically a political disaster in so many respects, because we had very high hopes and expectations for Ms. Truss," Nile Gardiner said on the Thursday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "She came in as prime minister — promising to deliver conservative principles and ideals and policies."

According to Gardiner, Truss had good intentions with certain tax cuts and conservative proposals, but ended up cowering to the elite on both the left and the right. 

"She came under very heavy fire from the liberal elites but also from the IMF, from Joe Biden, and from all sorts of corners and she caved in," Gardiner explained. "She basically surrendered to the left. And she gave in to the demands of the coup plotters inside the Conservative Party, who wanted her out."

Gardiner said that the British media is having fun with stories and headlines regarding Truss's resignation.

"There was sort of this running joke in a British newspaper that asked whether Liz Truss would outlast a lettuce," Gardiner said. "And hence the lettuce reference. And so the British press have had a field day sort of poking fun at the the Prime Minister."

"It's all very sad because she started off so well, and it all ended so badly for Ms. Truss," Gardiner concluded.