Truss, who was on stage at a public event at Beccles Public Hall, Suffolk was speaking about Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump when the banner appeared from her behind.
The UK’s shortest-serving prime minister received the payment from Taiwanese think tank, the Prospect Foundation, according to the UK parliamentary register of members’ financial interests.
Speaking at ABP Network's Ideas of India Summit here, Truss also there was a need to fast-track Ukraine's NATO membership.
The UK's first Indian-origin Prime Minister took charge at 10 Downing Street a day after Diwali last year on October 25 in the wake of intense political turmoil following the unceremonious exit of his predecessors party-gate scandal-hit Boris Johnson and the country's shortest-serving Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Liz Truss rejected sandwiches that were pre-made and wrapped in plastic and would insist on a freshly made one, according to the book.
The Mail on Sunday said that the hack was discovered when Truss was running to become Conservative Party leader and prime minister in the summer.
Sunak appoints Dominic Raab as the Deputy PM. Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who resigned last week in a move that helped trigger Truss' downfall, gets her job back. Here's the list of new Team Sunak.
Rishi Sunak has already appointed a government that mixes allies with experienced ministers from the administrations of his two immediate predecessors, Liz Truss and Boris Johnson as he tries to tackle Britain’s multiple economic problems.
One of Truss’s last acts as PM was to reaffirm the government's commitment to raise the state pension each year by the higher of earnings, inflation or 2.5%.
Truss won the leadership of the Conservative Party, which the UK electorate had voted into power, by promising a range of deep tax cuts and government spending increases. Whatever one might think of her policies, they were her mandate.
The lecterns, which have a metal core to prevent them blowing over, usually take at least three weeks to manufacture at a cost of up to $4,500.
The investment banker-turned politician is the youngest British prime minister in 210 years.
Britain’s new PM has not many choices. A prudent fiscal policy, spending cuts and tax hikes seem to be the way ahead. However, as the richest politician in the country, it will be no easy task for Sunak to tell people to tighten their belts even more and win their approval.
Accompanied by her husband Hugh O’Leary and two daughters, Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister ended her tenure by trying to strike an optimistic tone as she said that brighter days lie ahead.
Outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss will chair her final Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday morning before she makes her way to Buckingham Palace to formally tender her resignation to the 73-year-old monarch
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In her first public address after resigning as the leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss said, ""The triumph of light over darkness is at the heart of Diwali. We can all take inspiration from that powerful message."
As Italy’s first woman prime minister, Meloni may try to avoid the fate of the UK’s Liz Truss. But that would also depend largely on how her coalition partners choose their battle.
The Indian-origin former home secretary, who resigned from the Cabinet when Liz Truss was elected the Prime Minister last month, said the Tories must put political differences aside to give Sunak the best chance of succeeding as the new leader.
The 55-year-old former leader claimed he had crossed the 100-MPs threshold but decided not to go forward in the interest of Tory party's unity.
Boris Johnson and his former finance minister Rishi Sunak are leading the contenders to be the next prime minister following Liz Truss' resignation after just six weeks in office.
Liz Truss was only the fourth British leader to win the job through a particularly American practice newly common in her country: a party primary.
"Eighty five per cent of England are white English people and they want a Prime Minister who reflects that. I can’t just go to India and be the Prime Minister there can I?"
Neither Rishi Sunak nor Boris Johnson has officially declared their intention to contest the leadership election, with Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt the only candidate to formally announce her candidacy so far.