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Liz Truss is chosen to lead Britain |
Liz Truss will formally assume the prime minister’s title in a meeting today with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
The hawkish foreign secretary will assume power as Britain faces its gravest economic crisis in a generation. Household energy bills are set to spike by 80 percent, and some economists predict that inflation will top 20 percent by early next year. In a speech, she promised a “bold plan to cut taxes,” but many believe Truss will have to announce sweeping measures to shield vulnerable families.
And she must also repair a Conservative Party deeply divided after Boris Johnson’s turbulent three-year tenure, which peaked in 2019 with a landslide general election victory but descended into unrelenting scandals. He agreed to step down this summer.
Profile: Truss, 47, is a party stalwart and free-market champion. She will be Britain’s fourth prime minister in six years and third female leader, after Margaret Thatcher — upon whom she has modeled herself — and Theresa May.
Election: Truss defeated Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor of the Exchequer, 57.4 percent to 42.6 percent. In the most diverse leadership race in British history, Truss’s low-tax, small-government message appealed to the 160,000 or so mostly white and mostly aging members of the Conservative Party, who chose it over the hard truths offered by Sunak.
☞ assume power : to officially start a new job or position
He formally assumes the presidency next week.
☞ hawkish : preferring to deal with political problems by using military force instead of more peaceful methods
☞ sweeping : a sweeping change or development has a major effect
☞ turbulent : a turbulent situation, place, or period is one in which there is a lot of uncontrolled change
☞ landslide : a heavy fall of earth and rocks down the side of a mountain or steep slope
a situation in which a person or political party wins an election by a very big majority