- Liz Truss is Britain’s third prime minister in three years
- Truss gained 57% of votes from 172,000 Conservative Get together activists – lower than 1% of UK inhabitants
- Truss replaces Boris Johnson, who leaves workplace Tuesday
LONDON – Liz Truss will turn out to be Britain’s third feminine prime minister after Monday’s announcement by the ruling Conservative Get together that she would exchange Boris Johnson.
Truss, 47, has portrayed herself because the political inheritor to Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s formidable cheerleader totally free markets and low taxes, a powerful supporter of the Anglo-American alliance and a dynamo who performed a key function in ending the Chilly Warfare. Johnson, an architect of Britain’s exit from the European Union (generally known as Brexit), held the function for simply over three years earlier than resigning amid scandals over breaking his personal coronavirus lockdown guidelines.
