UK New PM LIZ TRUSS
LONDON - Britain is getting another head of state. That's right, one more time.
While the conservative Conservatives have put their faith in cuts, free trade and foreign secretary Liz Truss's banging to succeed where Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron failed around 2016, POLITICO has a convenient introduction to the British . (most recently) you are close to the highest representative of the state, so you can imagine you know what you are talking about companions.
The vital statistics
We should start with the basics. Support is conservative. She is 47 years old and has been a member of parliament for a long time, and eight people serve in the cabinet under the leadership of three state leaders. Her current gig is as an unknown secretary, which means she's also the point person for post-Brexit EU relations - so assuming you're reading this in Brussels, you can currently pretend to be aggrieved by this new development. He begins work on Tuesday as Johnson exits stage left, the blade wounds actually healing.
The personal life
Bracket is hitched to accountant Hugh O'Leary, with whom she has two little girls. Born in Oxford, the soon-to-be British trailblazer spent her childhood in Scotland and then in Leeds, northern England, where she attended a school she later accused of setting "low expectations" for its pupils. She similarly went through a stint in Canada before being late getting into the tried and tested course at Westminster – a degree in Thought, Legislative Affairs and Financial Affairs at Oxford University.
The politics
Support is considered a supporter of freedom and loves low duties and small states. She co-authored the 2012 book 'Britannia Unchained' by recently elected Tory MPs as a reminder of an ineffective Britain. He described British workers as "the most horrible slackers on the planet" and attacked young people for being "more interested in football and popular music" than their Indian counterparts.
However, Truss too has been a logical switcheroo during her career, stopping at the helm of several precarious government divisions and transforming from enthusiastic Cameroonian moderate to signal-waving boss of post-Brexit Britain. Cleverly keeping her hands unblemished during a serious Conservative upset that prompted a time of embarrassment, she hit Johnson, refusing to probe him directly — and yet figured out how to try not to be seen as part of Johnson's inner circle.
The policies
Bracket calmly cut off his opponent Rishi Sunak and charmed the Tory crowd by vowing to sever the charge "from the ground up", chop up antiquated EU regulations still on Britain's resolution book and tackle what is known in the UK as " awakened' culture. common aid. One powerful Truss MP told POLITICO last month they believed Britain "could be in for an 80s-style culture shock" under the incoming supreme leader, while key peer Jacob-Rees Mogg called for a complete rethink " whether the State should mediate specific capabilities by any means."
Support demanded she was no Margaret Thatcher clone (although that didn't stop her donning the late Tory supreme leader's best clothes).
You can see all 149 of her rapprochement promises here, courtesy of POLITICO's energetic contributor Noah Keate.
The in-tray
Bracket takes control at a turbulent time for Britain, which is struggling to cut energy costs (in part helped by the conflict in Ukraine) and is teetering on the precarious edge of a full recession. The nation was gripped by a tide of strikes that crippled everything from railroads to ports. God, and there's a "shit storm" across the canals brewing over water organizations dumping sewage into the ocean.
On the political front, Truss is charged with influencing the fortunes of the Conservative Party, which has been influential for some time and its ascendancy fell off the cliff this year as Johnson moderated the response to a large group of outrages. No tension, Liz.
The inner circle
Another head of state largely implies another top group, and key figures expected to land prominent positions in the Truss government include Britannia Unchained individual record holder Kwasi Kwarteng, a small-state natural Tory who looks anything but will definitely turn into a Truss peak. money to serve. Companion, karaoke-lover, and self-contained cabinet serve Therese Coffey, who currently holds a job and benefits, has been drafted into the leadership position. Rees-Mogg, a staunch Brexiteer who lives successfully in the palace but really hates working from home, looks like the leader to become business and energy secretary.
Defeated opponent and previous chancellor Sunak could probably be extended a job opportunity - but don't expect the guy who branded Truss's currency arrangement "corrupt" to jump at the opportunity one way or the other.
The Brexit conversion
Perhaps the most striking change in what we might liberally describe as Truss's realist excursion to the top has been her change from stressed-out Remainer to staunch backer of Brexit. Ahead of Britain's game changing EU mandate in 2016, Truss - then climate secretary - campaigned vigorously for the country to remain in the coalition, warning in advance that going solo would be a "hugely retrograde step" on environmental security and could usher in a "wasted decade" for the UK economy. God, and the tweet keeps popping up.
Fast forward to 2017 and Truss has previously backed down, saying the "huge financial problems" she feared Britain would face alone had "not happened". It's a stance they've held ever since and, happily, the UK economy is doing well and dandy, thank you very much.
The maverick diplomat
As an unknown British Secretary, Truss was not averse to causing some disruption. It passed dubious regulation that the EU says risks tearing up hard-fought securities for Northern Ireland as part of the Brexit deal (concerning Brussels and Washington at the same time) and shocked China by suggesting the West was ready to arm Taiwan. On the initiative battlefield, she won the definitive symbol of distinction for the planned British pioneer: she teased the French.
Australia's conservationists, who love her straight, free-flowing talk, are somewhat more energetic, while the Baltic states, frightened by the danger of Russia, see a trailblazer who will come to their rescue whenever trouble arises.
The art of the deal
The Truss made her name by flagging up a raft of post-Brexit economic deals, elevating the center housing the Cabinet's work to a daily opportunity to fly Britain's flag. As global exchange secretary, Truss embarked on ideals assessment with local Tories and composed a series of flipped economic deals aimed at organizing a post-Brexit connection with key exchange accomplices.
However, her methodology was not without controversy: grassroots MPs criticized her for focusing too much on her own profile, with some
