Liz Truss, just after 45 days in office, resigned as UK prime minister. In the process, she also lost out to a ball of lettuce. The lettuce has become a caricature of the 47-year-old Conservative leader's waning hold on power. It was pitted against the Prime Minister by The Daily Star, a left-leaning UK tabloid, asking readers if they thought the under-fire prime minister would lose her job before the vegetable decayed.