Britain's Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party's new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister.
Liz Truss has been chosen by Britain's Conservative Party as the party's new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as UK prime minister.Britain's Conservative Party announced Monday that Liz Truss, currently the country's foreign secretary, has been elected as the party's new leader and thus the U.K.'s new prime minister.
Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to formally appoint Truss as Britain's prime minister on Tuesday. The ceremony will take place at the queen's Balmoral estate in Scotland, where the monarch is spending her summer, rather than Buckingham Palace in London. "I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy. I will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people's energy bills, but also dealing with the long term issues we have on energy supply," Truss told party members after she was elected.
It's not clear how Truss's right-wing brand of conservatism, which played so well with party members, will go down with the wider British public - especially those most in need of government relief to help heat their homes this winter. Truss will be the U.K.'s fourth Conservative prime minister in six years, entering Downing Street following Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron.
A Truss government may not sit well with many because it reminds voters too much of Johnson's misdeeds, Fielding said.
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