Liz Truss won the leadership of the Conservative Party and the leadership of the British government to replace Boris Johnson, after the Conservative Party announced, today, Monday, the results of its internal elections.
Immediately after her victory was announced, Truss gave a speech, in which she thanked Johnson for standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, completing the process of Britain’s exit from the European Union (Brexit), introducing a Covid vaccine and “crushing” the former leader of the opposition Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn. She also pledged to deliver on her election promises, saying she had a “bold plan” to cut taxes and support economic growth.
The Al Arabiya correspondent in Britain had reported that Liz Terrace received 66% of the conservative vote.
The election of Truss at 10 Downing Street comes eight weeks after Johnson submitted his resignation.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was closer than her rival, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, to win the leadership of the ruling Conservative Party, becoming Britain’s new prime minister.
Liz Terrace, who spent her childhood in the north of England, studied at a public school in Leeds, is of left-wing Labor-supporting parents, studied politics, economics and philosophy at Oxford University.
She strongly opposed and then supported Brexit
Political fluctuations characterize Liz Terrace, she belonged to the Liberal Democratic Party and then moved to the Conservative Party in 1996 to take over the years ministerial positions in the governments of David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, so that the British Foreign Office is the most recent ministerial portfolio.
She strongly opposed Brexit to come back and support Britain’s exit from the European Union.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs aspiring to head the government wants to reduce taxes and ease the burdens of the living crisis on citizens. Her positions are hard-line in foreign policy, especially against China and Russia, and she is a supporter of Rwanda’s program to deport illegal immigrants.
Liz Truss, who opposed Margaret Thatcher’s most famous woman in politics and demonstrated against her policies and government in the past, wants decades later to lead the Thatcher party.