Prime Minister Liz Truss takes office in the midst of an economic emergency, given the historic fall in purchasing power caused by rising energy bills.
Prime Minister Liz Truss on Tuesday appointed a government of right-wing loyalists, marked by unprecedented diversity and tasked with pulling the UK out of the economic and social “storm” caused by soaring energy prices.
After a campaign on the promise of tax cuts, the third British female head of government, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, takes office in the midst of an economic emergency, given the historic fall in purchasing power caused by the rise in energy bills. As soon as she returned from Scotland, where Queen Elizabeth II officially invited her to form a government in place of Boris Johnson, she appointed the first heavyweights of her government.
For the first time, none of the four main executive positions is thus occupied by a white man. These are personalities, most of them very conservative, loyal to Liz Truss, but with the classic background of the British elite.
Former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, James Cleverly, 53, whose mother is from Sierra Leone, becomes head of diplomacy. Suella Braverman, a 42-year-old former lawyer, inherits the Interior and the file of illegal Channel crossings.
Above all, Kwasi Kwarteng, the 47-year-old son of immigrants from Ghana, is promoted to the post of finance minister, on the front line of inflation that exceeds 10%, the highest of the G7 countries and which threatens to worsen. .
“We should not be intimidated by the challenges we face,” Liz Truss told dozens of MPs gathered outside her Downing Street residence. “I am convinced that together we can weather the storm and rebuild our economy.”
She reiterated her promises of a “bold plan” of tax cuts and to act “this week” to help households strangled by energy bills.
According to British media, she is due to announce on Thursday a plan worth tens of billions of pounds to freeze electricity and gas prices, which were supposed to increase by 80% in October.
Defending Democracy.
The one who was until now head of diplomacy said she wanted to “defend freedom and democracy everywhere in the world, with allies” of the United Kingdom.
Liz Truss will have a lot to do to bring together a divided Conservative Party, in power for twelve years and now well behind Labor in the polls, two years from the scheduled date of the next general election.
The day after her election as leader of the majority Conservative Party, Liz Truss, elected by 57% of some 142,000 voting members of the Conservative Party against 43% for her rival Rishi Sunak, was received at the Scottish castle of Balmoral by the Queen Elizabeth II.
Two months after the announcement of his departure, Boris Johnson preceded Liz Truss to Balmoral to tender his resignation.
After three years and 44 days, barely more than Theresa May, whom he replaced in 2019, Boris Johnson left what he called “the best job in the world”, after a series of scandals that triggered dozens of resignations in his close entourage at the beginning of July.
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