Truss, 47, has served as foreign secretary and was the clear front-runner for the job. She clinched victory by appealing to the right-wing party faithful as a tax-cutting, anti-"woke" candidate who would take a hard line on post-Brexit dealings with the European Union.
Rishi Sunak trailed Truss in polls throughout the contest, which was at times overshadowed by a summer of strike action and economic fears.Truss will succeed Johnson, who announced his resignation in July when six months of rolling scandals — principally Covid lockdown-breaching parties held at the prime minister’s Downing Street residence and office — finally culminated in a critical mass of his own lawmakers abandoning him.
But for her, tackling the crisis is doubly hard because her party is bitterly divided on what to do about it. She was born in Oxford to a math professor father and a nurse mother she described as “left wing.” As a student at Oxford University, she supported the centrist Liberal Democrats and advocated positions such as abolishing the monarchy and banning nuclear weapons.
My feeling is that Truss will provide Labor with a wonderful opportunity that they will probably fumble. Again.
Morning_Joe Conservatives rule!
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