'Blue plaque' put up outside Tesco where lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss bought

The long-lasting lettuce famously outlasted Ms Truss - who has since been voted retired arsenic an MP - has been commemorated with a bluish plaque that is comic from aggregate ankles

A "blue plaque" commemorating the lettuce that famously outlasted Liz Truss' premiership has been unveiled supra the store wherever it was bought.

The lettuce, purchased by a Daily Star journalist, became the star of its ain unrecorded watercourse not agelong aft the arguable PM took bureau successful precocious 2022. Ms Truss, who was appointed connected September 6 that year, failed to clasp connected to her presumption earlier the lettuce wilted, lasting conscionable 44 days at Number 10 to the vegetable's 49.

The unrecorded watercourse took the federation by storm, becoming a invaluable distraction from Ms Truss and then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's chaotic economical argumentation and governmental turmoil. Now, the infinitesimal that started it each has received its ain "blue plaque", an honour traditionally reserved for the astir iconic moments successful British past and the Britons down them.

The unofficial plaque has appeared extracurricular the Tesco successful Walthamstow wherever the lettuce was purchased, supra a information informing motion and adjacent to an advert for British cheddar, reports the Daily Star. The plaque reads: "A lettuce purchased present successful 2022 lasted longer than Prime Minister Liz Truss (49 days). "

As if the plaque wasn't capable the sign's placement besides allows radical to harken backmost to different 1 of Ms Truss' much bizarre moments. In 2014, portion serving arsenic the situation caput nether David Cameron, she said it was a "disgrace" that the UK was importing two-thirds of its cheese.

The plaque besides shows the taste value the lettuce continues to carnivore astir 2 years aft the ex-PM near bureau - becoming the shortest-serving successful past - with the examination remaining precise overmuch successful the nationalist consciousness. Political run radical Led By Donkeys took vantage of the information earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile it unfurled a banner during 1 of the erstwhile politician's speaking events.

Ms Truss was speaking astatine a publication lawsuit erstwhile the radical unfurled the remote-controlled banner supra her and an interviewer that read: "I crashed the economy." The banner besides bore the representation of the celebrated lettuce, and prompted an aggravated absorption from Ms Truss, who stormed disconnected saying it was "not funny" and earning an applause arsenic she did so.

The radical said successful a station connected Facebook: "We conscionable dropped successful connected Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking circuit with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny."