Truss says goodbye to Downing Street defending the "urgent" measures of his Government

She insists on her call to lower taxes in her final speech as prime minister

MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The outgoing Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss, has said goodbye to Downing Street with a symbolic final speech in which, in addition to thanking the "enormous honour" of her "brief" stint as head of government, she has defended the measures "urgent" and "determined" that have ended up costing him his job.

Truss has assured that he has worked in favor of families and companies, for example to reduce the energy bill. "We are recovering our energy independence so that we are never again hostage to perverse foreign powers," added the 'tory' leader, in favor of taking advantage of the "freedoms" gained with Brexit to "do things differently".

Truss has been the prime minister for fiscal discipline and also for the pleas for increased growth. "We cannot allow ourselves to be a low-growth country," she has argued in front of the headquarters of the office where she has not even spent 50 days.

Likewise, he has defended the need to lower taxes "so that citizens can have the money they earn", despite the fact that precisely the 'mini budget' that the Government presented in September, which included an ambitious tax reform, marked the beginning of the end of his mandate.

To his successor, Rishi Sunak, Truss has wished "every success" for the good of the country. The outgoing leader will continue in political life, as a deputy, and she hopes to now be able to dedicate more time to the constituency that she represents in the House of Commons.

"We continue to weather the storm, but I believe in the United Kingdom, in the British people, and I know that the best days are yet to come," he stressed before heading to Bukingham Palace to formalize the transfer of powers before King Charles III.