The Foreign Minister Liz Truss was chosen on Monday to succeed Boris Johnson. and take the reins of the United Kingdom, a country shaken by the skyrocketing of prices.
Truss will replace Boris Johnson as head of the Executive this Tuesday, once she is received by Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle (Scotland).
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Two months after Johnson’s resignation, plagued by multiple scandals, the decision was announced at noon (local time) the result of the internal vote of the Conservative Party to replace him as leader of the formation and therefore also as Prime Minister.
The polls widely put Truss, 47, as the favorite in the election, in which some 200,000 members participated Of the information. Truss is the third British prime minister, after the conservative Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) and Theresa May (2016-2019).
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The race for the leadership began in July, when the controversial Johnson was pushed by his own party to resign. Voting by mail and online closed on Friday, after eight weeks of campaigning Truss described to the BBC as “the longest job interview in history“.
The result, however, is not necessarily representative of the wishes of the 67 million Britons. In a poll conducted by YouGov in late August, 52% of respondents thought Truss would be a “bad” or “terrible” prime minister in case of being chosen.
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43% stated that they do not trust it “at all” when it comes to tackling the problem of the growing cost of living, which has dominated the news for weeks. The next prime minister will face “the worst entrance for a new prime minister since Thatcher”, according to the Sunday Times.
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