British Prime Minister Liz Truss said Friday that Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96, “was one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known.” and “reinvented the monarchy” to adapt it to modernity.
The head of the Government inaugurated the tributes to the monarch in a special session in the House of Commons, in which the deputies who wish, out of 650, will be able to remember her until ten at night.
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The president of the Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, dressed in black robes, like other officials and the mourning of the deputies, opened the parliamentary session with a speech on the influence of the sovereign, after the plenary kept a minute of silence .
Opening the tributes from politicians, Prime Minister Liz Truss declared that Elizabeth II “was one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known” and maintained that she “reinvented the monarchy” to make it fit for modernity.
Truss, who was received by the monarch last Tuesday after being chosen by the Conservatives as Boris Johnson’s successor, said that the United Kingdom “has grown and flourished” during her reign, in which she demonstrated her devotion “to the union” of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The “tory” leader stressed that Elizabeth II, who met fifteen British prime ministers, held her weekly meetings with them until the end and confessed that she herself, in her contacts with the hitherto head of state, benefited from her “wise tip”.
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Then spoke the leader of the Labor Party, Keir Starmer, who underlined the queen’s constant presence in the lives of most Britons.
Ian Blackford, the spokesman for the Scottish National Party (SNP) – which calls for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom but without breaking away from the monarchy – highlighted “the love that the queen had for Scotland and Scotland for the queen”.
Elizabeth II was a human reference point
“Although she was the queen of all, to many in Scotland she was Elizabeth, Queen of Scots,” he proclaimed.
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Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed in his turn to speak his sadness at the death of the sovereign and pointed out that it was “a human reference point” until some even thought “that it was” eternal “.
Her predecessor, Theresa May, recounted what her regular dates with her were like.
“These were not meetings with a high and powerful monarch, but conversations with a woman with experience and knowledge and immense wisdom. They were also the only meetings I went to where I knew there would be no leaks to the press,” he explained.
She showed the world not just how to reign over a people, she showed the world how to give, how to love and how to serve. ⁰⁰It was that indomitability, that humour, that work ethic, that sense of history which together made her Elizabeth the Great. pic.twitter.com/PlaACJiVb6j
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) September 9, 2022
*With information from EFE
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