Liz Truss

The votes are in and Britain's next Prime Minister will be revealed on Monday, with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak vying for the coveted Tory leadership. The results ...

She is the third British female leader. Truss' mother only decided at the last moment to support her when she first ran for office and was on the campaign trail with her. She became a conservative, a claim bitterly contested by others. Time will tell. Colleagues at Leeds University are said to have been sent an email by the university warning them not to speak publicly about his daughter. The results will be announced at 12.30pm GMT on Monday, Sept 5.

Expected Tory winner again refuses to reveal details amid growing concerns about her plans to cut taxes.

“But I want to provide reassurance that this will be done in a fiscally responsible way. He said: “Families and businesses are feeling the impact across the United Kingdom and the world. “She’s clearly absolutely right that we’ve had dreadful growth over the last 15 years,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Overnight, the [Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-team-hold-talks-on-freezing-energy-bills-rlcq2t6c9) and [Daily Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/04/liz-truss-could-freeze-bills-avoid-energy-armageddon/) reported that her team has been in talks about potentially doing this, although such help could be more targeted than Labour’s universal proposal. Writing in the FT, Kwarteng said the UK economy was suffering the impact of the invasion of Ukraine and of Covid. Liz Truss could introduce a price freeze for some energy bills, it has emerged, as the MP widely tipped to be her chancellor if she is announced as the new Conservative leader promised her government would be “bold”.

Latest updates: follow all the developments as the new leader of the Conservatives is elected.

But perhaps Truss is also nervous about confirming that her first act as PM will be to announce a freeze on energy bills – a policy proposed by Labour last month, and also championed by Gordon Brown (who was regularly cited by Truss during the campaign as representing the sort of economic policy she rejected). But she did not deny that she was considering this in her BBC interview yesterday, and in the papers this morning there are multiple reports saying that this is what she is planning. I try to monitor the comments below the line (BTL) but it is impossible to read them all. [Boris Johnson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/boris-johnson) as prime minister after an audience with the Queen tomorrow, has seen that process inverted. But the Conservative party ballot, which will end today with Liz Truss all but certain to be chosen as the new leader, to replace When it was put to her that the rich would gain most from her plan to reverse the national insurance increase, Truss insisted her proposal was “fair”. And it’s essential that the political solutions that a government crafts, go with the grain of the laws of economics, because if you try and confront the laws of economics, you will come unstuck. (See [8.48am.)](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/sep/05/liz-truss-pm-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-energy-bill-freeze-tory-conservative-leader-uk-politics-live-latest-updates?page=with:block-6315a6ac8f0891b09bc876e1#block-6315a6ac8f0891b09bc876e1) Here are the key points. Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the backbench 1922 Committee, said there should be a “rethink” of the timetable before the next contest. Given the severity of the crisis we face, there will need to be some fiscal loosening to help people through the winter. As prime minister, Liz will take immediate action if elected that will help people with the challenges we face in the coming months, and lay the groundwork for the change we need in the long term. And yes, the Treasury will ensure that politicians, however senior, are confronted with the realities of the economic facts of life.

The Conservative Party's leadership contest winner, Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak, will be announced Monday and installed as the British prime minister on ...

Conservative Party lawmakers said they could no longer trust a prime minister who prevaricated his way through scandal after scandal (and could no longer be counted on to help win elections). If Truss does emerge victorious, she would be Britain’s third female prime minister — following Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May. His predecessor, May, also called an early election, which lost her a parliamentary majority. As foreign secretary, she was a reliable NATO ally and Ukraine supporter, talking tough on Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. And Sunak’s leading role in Johnson’s ouster — angry Tories called him a “Brutus” — seemed to hurt him with the grass roots. [“kissing hands,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/11/next-uk-prime-minister-explainer/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22) his successor will bow or curtsy and ask the queen for permission to form a new government. [shapeshifting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/03/liz-truss-uk-prime-minister/?itid=lk_inline_manual_12) politician. [“selectorate”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/11/next-uk-prime-minister-explainer/?itid=lk_inline_manual_12&itid=lk_inline_manual_10) of 150,000 to 200,000 dues-paying Conservative Party members — about 0.3 percent of the population — determine the country’s political future. [YouGov poll](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/09/01/what-do-people-think-liz-truss), 12 percent of the general public say Truss will be a good or great prime minister compared with 52 percent who say she will be poor or terrible. An avalanche of resignations followed. [Liz Truss](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/03/liz-truss-uk-prime-minister/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) is far and away the favorite among the Tory activists who are selecting the leader of their party and the next leader of Britain in vote results to be announced Monday. [Sunak’s fiery departure](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/05/boris-johnson-sunak-javid/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7) as chancellor of the exchequer, or treasury secretary, in July that launched the revolt against Johnson.

Liz Truss, who is expected to be named as Britain's next prime minister on Monday, is considering freezing energy bills in response to the spiralling cost ...

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The Conservative Party chairman will then publicly announce the result at 12.37pm (11.37pm NZ time). BBC political editor Chris Mason said the outcome was ...

Her opponent Rishi Sunak will then be told he has lost. The winner will be formally appointed prime minister the day after by the Queen. Liz Truss is widely tipped to win the Conservative leadership race and be announced as United Kingdom's new prime minister.

After a long summer of hustings, droughts and mud-slinging Liz Truss remains strong favourite to be named as the new Conservative party leader.

Mr Redwood has been MP for Wokingham since 1987 and is a former secretary of state for Wales. Mr Sunak has effectively ruled out serving in a Truss cabinet by saying ministers had to agree on the “big things”. But The Independent understands she has been considered for the role of international trade secretary. A father-of-four, he has been member of parliament for Chingford and Wood Green, formerly Chingford, since 1992. The work and pensions secretary, a long-standing Truss friend, was briefly mooted as a possible choice for chief whip. The 42 -year-old married mother-of-three was elected to Saffron Walden in 2017. But weekend reports suggest the married father-of-six is now in line for a top economic role – possibly as business secretary. But Coffey is set to take on the role of health secretary, The Independent understands. Mr Truss is thought to want him in charge at the Cabinet Office, as the new Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The former Tory chairman, who took over as education secretary in the aftermath of the putsch against Mr Johnson, is said to be in line to take over from Ms Truss as foreign secretary. Having worked alongside the Tory contest favourite as a minister of state at the Foreign Office, Mr Cleverly is part the so-called “Greenwich set” of senior Tory figures close to Mr Truss who live in and around the south-east London suburb. The Cambridge graduate chaired the European Research Group in 2017 and has been a member of Parliament for Hamshire since 2015.

The winner is set to be announced at 12.30pm on Monday 5 September – the date Parliament returns from recess. Nearly 200,000 Tory members were eligible to vote ...

[The result of the Tory leadership contest](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-rishi-sunak-conservative-leadership-1831092?ico=in-line_link) will be announced on Monday, and the [nation will discover its new prime minister](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-awkward-squad-reunite-party-1831001?ico=in-line_link). [The 96-year-old monarch](https://inews.co.uk/news/elizabeth-ii-how-long-queen-reign-compared-longest-serving-monarchs-history-1659560?ico=in-line_link) has always previously welcomed her new prime minister at Buckingham Palace, but she has been [had mobility issues over the past year](https://inews.co.uk/news/health/queen-may-not-attend-jubilee-celebrations-exertions-day-one-events-health-1667927?ico=in-line_link). The pollsters are equally convinced of a Truss victory. [Here’s when the winner of the leadership contest ](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/conservatives/tory-leadership-contest-result-when-announced-time-new-prime-minister-1830401?ico=in-line_link)will be announced, and what to expect. After their appointment, the new prime minister heads straight to 10 Downing Street. These are residual powers remaining with the sovereign that have not been placed elsewhere. Mr Sunak, meanwhile, is sitting at around 33/1. They have a short audience with the Queen. “After the outgoing prime minister has left, the incoming prime minister arrives and is formally asked by the Queen to form a government. [Boris Johnson will travel to Balmoral](https://inews.co.uk/news/the-queen-how-is-elizabeth-ii-health-issues-past-year-explained-engagements-missed-1825467?ico=in-line_link) with [the winner on Tuesday](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/balmoral-good-reminder-new-prime-minister-who-serve-1829343?ico=in-line_link), where he will officially tender his resignation to the Queen. [Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is the strong favourite](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/polling-suggests-rishi-sunak-closer-liz-truss-tory-leader-1794652?ico=in-line_link) to win the job, after maintaining a [comfortable poll lead over Rishi Sunak](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/blue-wall-tories-winning-back-liberal-voters-key-to-keeping-seats-pm-truss-scupper-1793917?ico=in-line_link) for the majority of the contest. [She appears to have won the support of the Boris Johnson loyalists](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-rishi-sunak-tax-cuts-prada-shoes-1830815?ico=in-line_link) and has promised tax cuts, [though is yet to unveil](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-economy-policies-difficult-decisions-tax-spending-cuts-1832571?ico=in-line_link) a detailed [plan for tackling the cost of living crisis](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-wrath-voters-polling-shows-heating-off-even-cold-1831024?ico=in-line_link).

The new leader of the Conservative Party — and the UK's next prime minister — is set to be announced from 12:30 p.m. London time (7:30 a.m. ET).

The central bank also predicted that the UK will enter recession before the end of the year. As far as this affects the Conservative Party leadership contest, analysts are skeptical that either candidate’s policies will help. Average annual energy bills alone are set to rise 80% to £3,549 (approximately $4,180) from October – threatening to overwhelm much of the country.

Next PM 'won't face the same concerns' as public because of subsidised bills at No 11 flat.

The senior Labour figure added: “Families deserve a government ready to act and meet the scale of this national emergency. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) Businesses are said to be in line for additional help. Campaigners said elected representatives were partly “insulated” from the financial pain ahead. [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. [Rishi Sunak](/topic/rishi-sunak), whichever of the two of them it is, announces a plan, that they will get behind it and support it,” he told the Today programme. [according to analysis by The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/uk-news/mps-energy-bills-expenses-truss-b2158576.html). Electricity, gas and water at the No 10 and No 11 flats are covered by the state as a “benefit in kind” – with Ms Truss only set to pay tax on the perk of around £1,980 this winter. [Liz Truss](/topic/liz-truss) will pay less than £2,000 for her [energy bills](/topic/energy-bills) at Downing Street this winter if she wins the Tory race, according to analysis by [Labour](/topic/labour).

LONDON -- U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss won a ruling Conservative Party ballot to become the country's next prime minister, likely leading to a ram.

Britain's Conservative Party picks Liz Truss as its leader, triggering the beginning of a handover from Boris Johnson. Liz Truss waves on stage after a Conservative leadership election hustings at Wembley Arena in London. Truss waves after a Conservative ...

Truss, who currently serves as foreign minister, will be the U.K.'s new prime minister, after the Conservative Party named her as its next leader on Monday, ...

And even though Sunak has promised to support a new government even if he is not leader, political analysts have said it will be difficult for Truss to unify her divided Conservatives, who still enjoy a sizable majority in the country's parliament — thanks, ironically, to Johnson's huge success as a campaigner during the last national elections. "And we will deliver a great victory for the Conservative Party in 2024" — when the next national elections are slated to be held. Truss secured more than 81,000 of those votes, the lowest proportion of any leader in recent history. [Boris Johnson](https://www.npr.org/1110061446), who was laid low by a succession of scandals that crescendoed in the first half of this year. Truss will become the country's fourth leader in a politically turbulent six-year period. She will be formally appointed as the next prime minister by Queen Elizabeth, likely on Tuesday afternoon.

Foreign secretary sees off former chancellor in race for Tory leadership. She will take over from Boris Johnson on Tuesday.

Liz Truss offers more of the same old failed Tory ideas that got us in this mess.” Paying tribute to her “friend” Johnson in her acceptance speech, Truss said: “Boris, you got Brexit done. In 2019, Boris Johnson won 66 percent of votes in the membership ballot, with Jeremy Hunt winning 34 percent. “I know our beliefs resonate with British people,” she said, adding: “I campaigned as a Conservative and will govern as a Conservative.” after comfortably seeing off rival Rishi Sunak in the race to lead the governing Conservative Party. [on a raft of promises](https://www.politico.eu/article/elizabeth-truss-uk-tory-government-policy-manifesto/) she made during the campaign and take the Conservatives — currently lagging in the polls — to victory at the next election.

After a drawn-out Conservative Party leadership contest the U.K. now has a new leader: Liz Truss.

Instead, noisy U.K.-EU relations and the risk of a trade war with the EU if the U.K. "The combination of surging inflation and tightening monetary policy is tipping the U.K. She had announced several weeks ago that she would introduce an emergency budget in the first few weeks of taking office to ensure support was on its way as bills rise. in 2018](https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/08/04/liz-truss-trade-us-trump-deregulation-brexit/) to discuss weakening regulation and to see whether the U.K. and the tax rise was introduced by then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Truss's rival in the leadership race, in April) as well promising no new tax rises and no energy rationing. At the time of the alleged meetings. Neither of those thinktanks, the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute, could confirm to CNBC that such meetings had taken place. President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s which broadly aimed at reducing taxes and regulations while also reducing public spending and controlling the supply of money. In Boris Johnson's government she has held the position of international trade secretary and then, until now, foreign minister. In 2010, however, she finally succeeded in becoming the MP for South West Norfolk, which remains her constituency now — although faced another hurdle to reach that position when local party activists tried to have her deselected as a candidate as she had not declared an affair in 2006 with a married MP, Mark Field. following the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson — the country now has a new leader. She recalls her mother taking her on nuclear disarmament marches, run by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), in the early 1980s where they would sing anti-Margaret Thatcher songs.

Foreign secretary comfortably beats rival Rishi Sunak and faces daunting task of rescuing British economy.

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During the leadership campaign, Truss has been vocal of her displeasure around solar farms, labelling them as “depressing sights” and “paraphernalia”. However, ...

That means accelerating the deployment of renewable energy; making homes and buildings more energy efficient; and providing real proactivity and focus to deliver well designed market reforms to protect consumers from the prices being seen in international fossil fuel markets. Urgent action now will improve energy security, help tackle the cost of living crisis, and create green jobs and investment across the country. “We have been clear for some time – there needs to be substantive upfront support for households and businesses for the bills they will be required to pay, to help them get through an incredibly challenging winter. Dave Timms, head of political affairs at Friends of the Earth, said: “As our new prime minister, Liz Truss will have to get in step with the majority of people who are dreading a devastating winter of soaring fuel and food bills, amid a spiralling cost of living crisis. Energy efficiency measures and cheap renewables are the best fixes for boosting energy security and bringing down fuel bills – they’re quick to develop and are universally popular with the public.” “As we have warned throughout the leadership contest, knee jerk and ill-thought out cuts to renewable energy investment schemes will simply store up problems for the future, and save relatively little in the short-term. These out of touch, short-sighted proposals will do little to tackle the energy crisis and will only lock us into expensive and polluting fossil fuels for decades to come. However, partly in response to the energy crisis, Truss has suggested that she would pause some green funding initiatives in order to increase North Sea gas extraction. While Truss has experience in key green policy roles, her advocacy for more oil and gas exploration is unlikely to sit well with the green economy. Truss is reported to have ordered changes in the way the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) spends aid funding, with less focus given to health, climate change and conflict prevention. However, concerns persist that this may open the door to more oil and gas exploration and more red tape for solar. While chief secretary to the Treasury in 2018, Truss also met with lobby groups linked to climate change denial.

She's a small-state ideologue, but all that matters is that she carries the UK through this economic crisis, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins.

But mention any policy – [defence](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/19/tory-leadership-truss-mordaunt-uk-defence-spending-pledge), care homes, the NHS – and she wants to spend more on it. [Guardian Newsroom:](https://membership.theguardian.com/event/guardian-newsroom-who-will-be-our-next-prime-minister-395812424617) [What does Liz Truss’s leadership mean for the UK?](https://membership.theguardian.com/event/guardian-newsroom-what-does-liz-trusss-leadership-mean-for-the-uk-395812424617)Join our panel including Hugh Muir, Jessica Elgot, Owen Jones and Salma Shah as they react to the announcement of the new PM in this livestreamed event. He is the one to watch, holding the key to Tory fortunes at the next election. Pragmatism – and desperation – is guiding French and [German governments](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/04/germany-olaf-scholz-announces-package-help-ease-high-energy-prices) to radical innovations. Provided she pursues her past habit of adjusting her ideas to the prevailing wind, she may just come through the next year with her standing enhanced. [with £100bn](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/sep/05/liz-truss-pm-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-energy-bill-freeze-tory-conservative-leader-uk-politics-live-latest-updates?page=with:block-6315b8148f0891b09bc87794#block-6315b8148f0891b09bc87794) of public money, significantly more than what her predecessor, Boris Johnson, [spent on furlough](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60924286) during the Covid crisis. She wants to “rip up” Treasury orthodoxy and circumvent a “bureaucratic” civil service. [economic war on Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/putin-ruble-west-sanctions-russia-europe) and it cannot last for ever. The nation will be hanging on her every word. This will require a blatant U-turn for a prime minister who spent the summer campaigning for office on a pledge of no more such “handouts”. It is largely the result of Europe’s After 12 years of Tory government, Truss will be forced to summon Labour’s state interventionism to her rescue.

Britain's Conservative Party picks Liz Truss as its leader, triggering the beginning of a handover from Boris Johnson.

“She promised that she campaigned as a Conservative and she will govern as a Conservative, she promised to cut taxes, to grow the economy, she promised to deal with the energy crisis,” he added. [Rishi Sunak](/news/2022/7/20/rishi-sunak-meet-the-man-who-could-become-the-uks-next-pm), a former finance minister, Monday’s announcement triggered the beginning of a handover from [Boris Johnson](/news/2022/7/7/the-rise-and-fall-of-uks-prime-minister-boris-johnson). [Foreign Secretary Liz Truss](/news/2022/8/1/who-is-liz-truss-the-favourite-to-become-britains-next-pm) has been named leader of the governing Conservative Party, taking power as Britain’s next prime minister at a time when the country faces a cost-of-living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession.

It is rare for prime ministers not to come to Downing Street with children in tow: David Cameron was the first prime minister to take paternity leave while in ...

Norma Major took it to a further extreme and lived separately with the young children in Huntingdon for some of the time her husband, John, was prime minister. “But I don’t want to go,” wailed the six-year-old. Guests in the Cameron Downing Street living room were expected to balance kids on their knees. But exactly how – and, indeed, whether – the new prime minister blends work and family in Downing Street remains to be seen. Recalling a war cabinet meeting that he attended, Stothard wrote that “in the half-darkness, the rooms resemble the site of a hastily finished children’s party. All the security arrangements make it incredibly hard for people to come and go,”

Truss' selection was announced today in London after a leadership election.

With household energy bills set to increase by 80 per cent next month, charities warn that as many as one in three households will face fuel poverty this winter, leaving millions of people to choose between eating and heating their homes. A new general election isn't required until December 2024. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had no authority to make major policy decisions since July 7, when he announced his intention to resign. Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to formally name Truss as Britain's prime minister on Tuesday. Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak, the government's former Treasury chief, by promising to increase defence spending and cut taxes, while refusing to say how she would address the cost-of-living crisis. Under Britain's parliamentary system of government, the centre-right Conservative Party was allowed to hold an internal election to select a new party leader and prime minister, without going to the wider electorate.

Liz Truss has officially won the Conservative leadership race and tomorrow she will become the United Kingdom's new prime minister.

Truss will be formally appointed prime minister by the Queen tomorrow and she will then begin appointing ministers to her new cabinet. She said she had a "bold plan" to cut taxes and grow the UK economy. Tomorrow Truss will become prime minister when she visits the Queen in Balmoral for an invitation to form her UK government.

The United Kingdom now has its third ever female prime minister. Liz Truss was elected as leader by grassroots members of the Conservatives to lead the ...

Being very favourably disposed to Australia means the commitment to [AUKUS](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/16/what-is-the-aukus-alliance-and-what-are-its-implications) – the strategic alliance between Australia, the UK and the US – will remain. A [gulf has emerged](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/should-boris-johnson-remain-as-leader-of-the-conservative-party) between grassroots Conservatives and the wider electorate. Her advisers will be tempted to consider a quick election – giving her a spurious “mandate” that the Westminster system doesn’t require – and there are lessons in what happened to Theresa May when that temptation arose. [handouts](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/times-liz-truss-attacked-handouts-27838296)”. Like Johnson, Truss is a big fan of Australia (Dan Teehan’s The next issue is the war in Ukraine. [approximately 180,000](https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05125/) people who elected the new leader – will be delighted that the continuity candidate got over the line. There are only six Conservative MPs in Scotland, but having Truss as leader won’t make the job of retaining seats at the next election any easier. This was music to the ears of the older and wealthier Conservative members, but a case of “same world, different planet” for the wider electorate. Additionally, as someone who symbolises continuity with the Johnson government, Truss may struggle in the 20 so-called “Blue Wall” seats in southern England. This is because Truss essentially offers more of the same. Similarly, strategists for the opposition parties – Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party – will also be delighted that the continuity candidate got over the line.

The new leader of the Conservative party inherits a country in crisis.

Eight candidates participated in the first stage of the contest to replace Johnson. Truss has the power to call a general election at will. The choice of Johnson’s successor was always going to be a matter exclusively for the governing Conservative party. In the end, Truss beat Sunak by 57% to 43%. [compelled to step down](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62070422) as Conservative leader and prime minister in July. Whenever a prime minister steps down midway through a parliament, there is no constitutional need to hold a new general election. The problems were compounded by the looming cost-of-living crisis and the apparent chaos of his Downing Street operation. A string of scandals demonstrated his lax approach to standards in public life. As the new prime minister, Truss faces a number of daunting challenges: rampant inflation, eye-watering energy costs, deteriorating public services, ongoing industrial action and an independence-minded government in Scotland. She has preached the benefits of Brexit and adopted a notably hawkish stance against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Her rapid rise to the top started in 2010 when she was first elected to Parliament. Truss will become the Conservatives’ fourth leader and prime minister in just over six years.

Liz Truss will be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom after winning most votes in the Conservative Party leadership contest, succeeding Boris ...

He may still be forced to resign as a Member of Parliament after a House of Commons committee gives its verdict on whether or not Johnson knowingly misled Parliament when he claimed no rules were broken in Downing Street. [the Queen](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/uk/royal-news-newsletter-09-02-22-scli-gbr-cmd-intl/index.html) on Tuesday, Truss will also visit the monarch at her Scottish residence Balmoral, where, as leader of the largest party in parliament, she will be invited to form a government. And on Monday, in a signal of these serious challenges ahead, the British pound dropped 0.3% to its lowest level against the US dollar since 1985. Regardless, Johnson is likely to remain a high-profile figure. Truss will take over a Conservative government that is facing multiple crises in the country. His downfall followed months of revelations over parties held in 10 Downing Street while the country was under Covid lockdown restrictions. Inflation rose above 10% in July for the first time in 40 years, driven largely by the rising cost of energy, food and fuel. He leaves office a deeply unpopular prime minister less than three years after romping home to an enormous landslide election victory in 2019. She pledged action to tackle the crisis in a short victory speech at a conference center in London on Monday. Truss had been the frontrunner for weeks, and the 47-year-old will now follow Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May to become Britain’s third female premier. Like Thatcher, Truss has come from relatively humble beginnings to dominate a world inhabited largely by men. Throughout her political career, especially during the leadership contest, Truss has been compared to Thatcher, who, for many on the right, remains the benchmark for Conservative leaders.

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Obviously if you’re the underdog, you kind of have to throw caution to the wind a bit,” the ally added. He brought a “level of calmness,” one aide close to the campaign said. “Conservatives don’t believe in raising taxes, and we pledged not to do it at the last election,” a supportive MP said. “There was never a view we would get onto the final ballot, until we got there,” another ministerial supporter of Truss added. “There were quite a few MPs who didn’t know her as well as they knew others,” she said. MPs and activists who had been queasy about the defenestration of Johnson were charmed. But a ministerial supporter dismissed this as “total nonsense,” and said the events were nothing more than a secretary of state engaging with MPs on important topics. I think people actually liked that, counterintuitively,” said an early ministerial backer, who was not part of the original campaign team. Her allies dared to believe that the momentum in the race to replace Boris Johnson was finally tilted in her favor. Aides admit preparation for the Channel 4 debate in the first week of the campaign was also “chaotic,” largely because they never thought the moment would arrive. Two of her most important aides, Ruth Porter and Jason Stein, who had both previously worked for Truss in government, left well-paid jobs at the FGS Global PR consultancy on the very day Johnson resigned, July 7. Around the table were two of her most trusted aides, taking turns to roleplay the one man standing in her path to 10 Downing Street — Truss’ former Cabinet colleague, Rishi Sunak.

The new PM has not set out plans for reducing energy waste; instead she has talked of more oil and gas.

“There’s no mandate and no public support to roll back on these commitments. Many green campaigners remember Truss as secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs from 2014 to 2016. She must also rule out fracking, new coalmines and more North Sea oil and gas extraction.” “None of these can be solved by pandering to those in her party who are advocating environmental deregulation and new gas, oil and coal extraction. He called for measures that would reduce energy waste and cut people’s energy bills in the short term, such as home insulation. She has not yet set out plans for insulating homes, which experts have said must form the key part of any strategy to reduce energy bills, and is

But there are political opportunities if she can get her response to the energy crisis right.

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Incoming prime minister Liz Truss is planning to announce a "twin track" approach to tackling the cost-of-living crisis, starting with help for househ...

PoliticsHome understands that Truss plans to announce a package of support for households within seven days, but there is a chance plans will not be confirmed until early next week. Kwasi Kwarteng, a key Truss ally, is expected to be made Chancellor when she confirms her first Cabinet appointments on Tuesday evening. Incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss is planning to announce a "twin track" approach to tackling the cost of living crisis, starting with help for households, within the next week.

Scottish first minister and London mayor urge new PM to address cost of living crisis with emergency package.

Truss later indicated she was referring to the first minister’s calls for a second Scottish independence vote, and insisted she also wanted constructive relations with Edinburgh. “The Good Friday agreement must be honoured and assembly election result respected. [refused to rejoin the executive](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/14/dup-rebuffs-uk-appeal-to-restore-power-sharing-in-northern-ireland) while the protocol remains in its present form. There is no more time to waste – action is needed now.” [Scotland](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland) on Tuesday, offered the new Conservative leader her qualified congratulations in a tweet. [Liz Truss](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/liz-truss) to freeze energy prices immediately, as part of a package of emergency measures to address the cost of living crisis.

The tone of EU leaders' messages to the UK's incoming prime minister reveals much more than a superficial "well done".

Liz Truss's team insists she prefers a negotiated outcome with the EU. And the Irish-British relationship is particularly important." Liz Truss and the Johnson government she served have long said there were fundamental problems with the protocol, adversely affecting politics and society in Northern Ireland. "Of course, as you say in English, the proof will be in the pudding once she settles into 10 Downing Street. Take this blunt comment from a high-level diplomat from one of the EU's most influential countries: "Ms Truss has shown she's keen to play to the political gallery at home. The EU's chief negotiator, Maroš Šefčovič, said on Friday that the EU would never walk away from the negotiating table. "Here in Europe, the jury is out on Liz Truss," he added. The issue is complex, but the impact can be summed up in three simple words. The reason: despite the political separation of Brexit, pressing events in the rest of Europe can have, and are having, a considerable real-time impact back in the UK. Analysts predict that will have quite an impact on the energy market - at least if EU countries, with their contrasting priorities, ever manage to reach an agreement. But being too assertive, or combative vis-à-vis Paris, is unlikely to guarantee that French co-operation needed from Calais. But the tone of EU leaders' messages to Liz Truss - seen here in Brussels as a hardliner on Brexit, and a hawk when it comes to Russia - reveals a lot more than a superficial "well done".

Your two-minute introduction to the woman Tories have installed at No 10. Plus: What does it mean for New Zealand?

Critics of Starmer say – and Truss will hope it’s true – that Labour should be doing a whole lot better after the disgraces of Boris, an unedifying, scrappy contest to succeed him, and a general sense of teetering on full-blown economic crisis. I know a range of my Cabinet colleagues are hoping to meet with their new British counterparts soon as well.” In a statement issued just a few minutes after Truss’s victory, Ardern said: “Liz Truss has been a close friend of New Zealand. After the debacle of the last months of Johnson, and a governing apparatus left withering on the Partygate vine, Truss has her work cut out for her. Jacinda Ardern and Truss have not met, but there may be an opportunity for that this month in New York. And it’s hardly a cross-section of the population: an Truss took the opportunity, some thought, to emulate her in both appearance and rhetoric. That’s roughly a quarter of one per cent of the British population. Born in 1975, Truss was born into a household that was, she’s said, to the left of Labour. Unlike the recent procession of super-posho Eton-educated Conservative leaders, Truss went to state school in Leeds. More than half expect her to be poor (17%) or terrible (35%). She will now travel to Balmoral in Scotland to be officially appointed PM by the Queen, who isn’t well enough to travel (or just really doesn’t fancy it) to Buckingham Palace.

She faces immediate pressure to deliver on her promises to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

“I think she’s going to find it very difficult to disentangle herself from the whole Johnson shadow.” While the economy is certain to dominate the first months of the new premier’s term, Truss will also have to steer the U.K. Truss has won the support of many Conservatives with her zeal in rolling back state intervention and slashing taxes. “I know that’s why people voted for us in such numbers in 2019 and as your party leader I intend to deliver what we promised those voters right across our great country.” Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made no major policy decisions since he announced he was stepping down on July 7, and officials insisted that measures to address the energy cost crisis would be deferred until his successor is in place. “I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy.

Liz Truss has promised to deal with surging energy costs and cut taxes after becoming the next PM, replacing Boris Johnson.

Labour has called on Truss to expand the windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies to part-fund a six month freeze to domestic prices. In a break with tradition, the outgoing and incoming prime ministers are expected to travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for the handover of power, rather than Buckingham Palace. Johnson congratulated Truss on her victory and said she had the right plan to "unite our party". In her victory speech, she promised a "bold" programme of tax cuts to grow the flagging economy and prevent the UK tipping into recession. Speaking at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in London, she told party activists she would "deliver on the energy crisis" by dealing with bills and boosting the UK's domestic energy sources. Liz Truss has promised to deal with surging energy costs and to cut taxes after winning the Tory leadership contest to become the next PM.