The shortest-serving British Prime Minister in history resigned 242 days ago on October 20, 2022. Since then, Liz Truss has kept a low profile, but has now spoken out about being infamously compared to a lettuce.

At the time of her premiership, the Daily Star started a live stream of a lettuce, asking which would last longer in a ‘Liz vs Lettuce’ contest. Its front page asked: ‘How long can wet lettuce Liz romaine?’, which was pretty brutal. Especially as the lettuce ended up winning when Truss resigned.

Truss was asked about the whole thing at the News XChange journalism conference this week in Dublin, Ireland, and said:

‘I don’t think that’s particularly funny I just think it’s puerile.

I think that the British media are known throughout the world for being particularly vociferous and I don’t think they are particularly deferential to politicians.

It’s frustrating because I came into politics because I wanted to change the country, I want to push particular ideas, and it is frustrating when you get diverted onto a discussion of what hat you’re wearing, or whether you like photographs, all this other stuff, rather than one of the crucial issues that are affecting Britain, Europe, Ireland and the US.

I do think sometimes politics is sort of treated as a branch of the entertainment industry. Who’s up, who’s down, who says what about who – it’s a bit playground when there are really serious issues going on.’

Well, that’s for sure. What does she think? That we’re not going to mock the people in the most powerful positions in the country? It’s what makes a country free! Even the #BeKind crowd will suspend their hashtag to take the mick out of you if you’re someone they don’t like.

Truss also said when she attended international summits she would get ‘a lot of sympathy’ from politicians abroad about the way she was treated, so at least someone out there sympathises. Not to mention – she gets off pretty light compared to some of her peers.