'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 out as an MP - has been commemorated with a blue plaque that is funny from multiple ankles

A "blue plaque" commemorating the lettuce that famously outlasted Liz Truss' premiership has been unveiled above the shop where it was bought.

The lettuce, purchased by a Daily Star journalist, became the star of its own live stream not long after the controversial PM took office in late 2022. Ms Truss, who was appointed on September 6 that year, failed to hold on to her position before the lettuce wilted, lasting just 44 days at Number 10 to the vegetable's 49.

The live stream took the nation by storm, becoming a valuable distraction from Ms Truss and then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's chaotic economic policy and political turmoil. Now, the moment that started it all has received its own "blue plaque", an honour traditionally reserved for the most iconic moments in British history and the Britons behind them.

The unofficial plaque has appeared outside the Tesco in Walthamstow where the lettuce was purchased, above a security warning sign and next to an advert for British cheddar, reports the Daily Star. The plaque reads: "A lettuce purchased here in 2022 lasted longer than Prime Minister Liz Truss (49 days). "

As if the plaque wasn't enough the sign's placement also allows people to harken back to another one of Ms Truss' more bizarre moments. In 2014, while serving as the environment secretary under David Cameron, she said it was a "disgrace" that the UK was importing two-thirds of its cheese.

The plaque also shows the cultural weight the lettuce continues to bear nearly two years after the ex-PM left office - becoming the shortest-serving in history - with the comparison remaining very much in the public consciousness. Political campaign group Led By Donkeys took advantage of the fact earlier this year when it unfurled a banner during one of the former politician's speaking events.

Ms Truss was speaking at a book event when the group unfurled the remote-controlled banner above her and an interviewer that read: "I crashed the economy." The banner also bore the image of the famous lettuce, and prompted an angry reaction from Ms Truss, who stormed off saying it was "not funny" and earning an applause as she did so.

The group said in a post on Facebook: "We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny."