Now it’s official. Liz Truss, 47, was elected this Monday as the new leader of the Conservative Party and will be named the new Prime Minister of the British government, succeeding Boris Johnson. Truss was head of British diplomacy, but has held various government positions, including Deputy Foreign Secretary for Children and Education, Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Minister for Justice and Minister for International Trade.
Of the 172,437 militants, Liz Truss won with 81,326 of the vote (57%) and Rishi Sunak was preferred by 60,399 members of the Conservative Party (43%). announced the chairman of the 1922 Committee, the party council responsible for the electoral process, Graham Brady.
With this result, the UK is getting a woman in government for the third time, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
A result that was already expected and that confirms the advantage recorded in several polls published since July.
“It is an honor to be elected leader of the party”declared during her victory speech as Conservative Party leader and Boris Johnson’s successor at 10 Downing Street. Truss began by thanking those who accompanied her during the campaign and praising her opponent, Rishi Sunak, a former finance minister.
He then addressed “friend” Boris Johnson, who “got Brexit”, “crushed Jeremy Corbyn, launched the vaccine and faced Vladimir Putin”. “It was admired from Kiev to Carlisle,” Truss said.
“Thank you for trusting me to lead our great Conservative Party, the largest political party on Earth,” said Truss, who pledged to cut taxes, as he announced during the campaign.
“I will present a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy,” underlined Liz Truss, assuring it “will solve the problems of the energy crisis”, referring, for example, to issues related to “the energy bills”. people’s energy” and with energy supply.
In addition to economic growth, Truss also wants to present results on the British National Health Service.
I am honored to have been elected leader of the Conservative Party.
Thank you for trusting me to lead and deliver for our amazing country.
I will take bold action to see us all through these difficult times, grow our economy and unleash the potential of the UK. pic.twitter.com/xCGGTJzjqb
— Liz Truss (@trussliz) September 5, 2022
He said he wants to deliver on what has been promised to voters, stressing that Britons identify with the party’s beliefs “in freedom, in the ability to control one’s own life, in low taxes, in personal responsibility.” “I campaigned as a conservative and I will rule as a conservative,” she said.
The new leader of the Conservative Party assured that it will “use all the fantastic talents of the conservative party” to form the new government, whose composition is to be announced next Tuesday.
Tomorrow Boris Johnson will inform Queen Elizabeth II of his resignation and the monarch will appoint Liz Truss and ask her to form a government as leader of the party with a parliamentary majority.
The hearings will take place at Balmoral Castle, in the north of Scotland, where the Queen currently resides, breaking with the tradition of taking place at Buckingham Palace, with a spokesman for the 96-year-old monarch citing mobility issues to prevent travel to London. to avoid .
Called the new “Iron Lady”
Mary Elizabeth Truss was born in Leeds in 1975 to a university professor of mathematics and a nurse, both from the Labor Party. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, where he chaired the university’s Liberal Democrats. He entered politics in 1996 when he joined the Conservative Party. She has been the Member of Parliament for the South West Norfolk constituency since 2010. She has been married to accountant Hugh O’Leary since 2000 and has two daughters.
In 2012, she was Deputy Secretary of State for Children and Education under David Cameron and later Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Under Theresa May, she became the first woman to hold the position of Attorney General and later became Secretary of the Treasury. In 2014, he was criticized and joked about his nervous speech when he thought it was “a shame” that the UK imports two-thirds of the cheese it consumes.
During the Boris Johnson administration, she became Secretary of State for International Trade and Secretary of State for Women and Equality in 2019. This year she became head of British diplomacy and negotiator for Task Force Europe.. It is also known for defending the free market and minimum state intervention.
Liz Truss proposes a plan called “Trussonomics” for a break from government fiscal policy to help Britons with the rising cost of living and boost the economy. In his campaign, he promised some measures, such as scrapping the 1.25% increase in the social security rate that was applied in April and temporarily suspending the environmental tax on energy bills.
The future prime minister will discuss the controversial protocol for Northern Ireland with the 27. Liz Truss argues that trade between Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom should be “free of movement” and that the role of the Court of Justice of the EU “as the ultimate arbiter of disputes between us” should be ended.
According to the Financial Times, a former government official says Liz Truss’ idea is “to say freedom as often as possible and be as much like Margaret Thatcher as possible” — just as she has a habit of wearing one-colored suits, preferably blue or red. foreign media they have already dubbed her the new “Iron Lady”, the nickname by which the first woman to lead the British government was known.
In 2009, she was nearly prevented from running for parliament after having an extramarital affair with Representative Mark Field, a revelation that destroyed the marriage of her mentor, 10 years her senior.
In recent months, embarrassing videos have also been uncovered from 1994, when he was an active Liberal Democrat activist defending the abolition of the monarchy, and conservative-race rival Rishi Sunak did not remember Truss campaigning against ‘Brexit’ (trial of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union) in the 2016 referendum.
Even at the start of the election to replace Boris Johnson, the British diplomatic chief came third in the early rounds of voting and was not favored by analysts, activists or bookmakers, who favored Penny Mordaunt or Kemi Badenoch.
When he qualified as a finalist in July, he backed Sunak, the favorite of Conservative MPs.
But in recent years and weeks, Liz Truss has reinvented herself in the image of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, adopting herself as Eurosceptic, militaristic, low-tax advocate and critical of issues such as transgender rights.
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Source: DN
