Liz Truss left the stage at an event to promote her own book after she was targeted by campaigners joking about the lettuce that outlasted her time in Downing Street.

The former prime minister was speaking in Suffolk on Tuesday in support of her memoir Ten Years to Save the West when the event was ambushed with a remote-controlled banner.

Ms Truss, who lost her seat at the general election last month, was in office for just 49 days before a backlash to her mini-budget from the market and Tory MPs forced her resignation.

Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister on October 25, 2022, after just 45 days in office, making her the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history. Her resignation followed a tumultuous period marked by economic instability and growing discontent within her own Conservative Party. The primary factor behind her resignation was the backlash to her government's proposed economic policies, particularly a mini-budget announced by her Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, which included unfunded tax cuts aimed at stimulating growth. The plan, however, spooked financial markets, leading to a sharp drop in the value of the pound, rising government bond yields, and increasing borrowing costs for the UK.