TRUSS. Favorite to succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss could become the third woman to lead the country. His portrait.
She is “in the best position to defend the UK in these troubled times.” It is weight support that received Liz Truss in the race for the post of Prime Minister of the kingdom. The candidacy of the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the running to succeed a resigning Boris Johnson, was supported by the British Minister of Defense, Ben Wallace. One more asset in the hands of the forties, strongly expected to become the third woman – after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May – to settle at 10 Downing Street, the English Matignon, and therefore lead the government of the Crown. In pole position in the polls, Liz Truss sees her image improve over the course of the debates against her opponent, Rishi Sunak, former finance minister of Boris Johnson.
Like her only rival, Liz Truss therefore intends to become Prime Minister by winning the majority of the votes of the conservative party to which she belongs and which is currently in power, equivalent to the right in France. It is only the members of this political family who will be able to appoint their new boss in place of Boris Johnson, thus subsequently becoming the new head of government. While voting by ballot or electronically must begin between 1er and on August 5, Liz Truss won’t know her result until early September. The official announcement of the scores will take place on Monday, September 5.
Until then, debates will continue to take place between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, they who have already opposed on TV sets to defend their program for the United Kingdom, opposed in particular on the question of finances, Liz Truss promising a tax cut “from day one” of his tenure at 10 Downing Street. But will she get it when her stance against the monarchy in the 1990s and her initial opposition to Brexit are brought back to the fore?
Liz Truss therefore faces Rishi Sunak for the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and to replace Boris Johnson. Minister and Secretary of State continuously since 2014, the member of the conservative party qualified for the final duel of her political family which should make it possible to designate the future boss of the Matignon of the monarchy. At 46, she was chosen by the deputies of her camp, just like Rishi Sunak. His candidacy will be submitted to the vote of the members of the conservative party. During a first vote of the members of the deputies of the conservative party allowing to designate the final duel, Rishi Sunak had collected 137 votes, in front of Liz Truss (113 votes), which had preceded Penny Mordaunt (105 votes), secretary of State in Trade.
Liz Truss appears to be the favorite in this internal election for the British Conservative Party and seems to be heading straight for the post of Prime Minister. On July 21, the Yougov polling institute published a survey of 730 members of the Conservative Party. 62% were in favor of a victory for Liz Truss, far ahead of Rishi Sunak. At the end of a first debate organized on Monday, July 25, Yougov asked 507 party members which of the two had attracted the most during the evening: victory for Liz Truss (50%) ahead of her opponent (39%). . Will the members of the conservative party confirm this trend?
What is the essence of Liz Truss’ program?
Presented as more conservative than her opponent, Liz Truss defends a reduction in taxes, in particular on companies, promises to cancel the rise in social security prices and to abolish the green levy (an environmental tax on the principle of polluter-pays ). Affirming that she will not question Brexit, she affirms, on the environmental level, to want to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, while building new nuclear power plants, she who is opposed to photovoltaic power plants.
If she appears today as a fervent defender of Brexit, Liz Truss has not always come out in favor of leaving the European Union. At the time of the 2016 referendum, she even held an opposite position… namely that she wanted the United Kingdom to remain in the Union. “I support ‘remain’ because I think it’s in Britain’s economic interest and it means we can focus on vital economic and social reform at home,” she tweeted on the 20th. February 2016, four months before the referendum, which had seen the “leave” (leave, editor’s note) win by a short head. “I voted to stay because I was concerned about the economy,” she confirmed to the BBC a year later.
I am backing remain as I believe it is in Britain’s economic interest and means we can focus on vital economic and social reform at home.
— Liz for Leader (@trussliz) February 20, 2016
Since then, it is an understatement to say that she has made a reversal, decided to support Brexit, justifying the end of July 2022, always with the BBC to have “fully embraced the choice the British people have made.” Before adding: “I was wrong and I am ready to admit that I was wrong. Some of the omens of doom did not occur and instead we have, in fact, opened up new opportunities.”
Liz Truss to the BBC on Brexit: I was wrong and Im prepared to admit I was wrong. Some of the porters of doom didnt happen and instead weve unleashed new opportunities.
— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) July 21, 2022
In an interview at Telegram, she explained in the spring of 2022 that “what I have seen both in my work in commerce and in my role as foreign minister is the new freedom and the impetus that having a independent trade policy and an independent foreign policy allowed us to do so.” And said: “If I could come back in 2016, I would vote to leave.”
Biography of Liz Truss
Her real name Mary Elizabeth Truss was born in 1975, whose parents were a nurse for the mother and a math teacher for the father, both rather on the left according to her words. After wandering around the United Kingdom due to successive moves of her family, she joined the University of Oxford and graduated in philosophy, politics and economics. Invested in the Liberal Democrat cause during her studies, she opposed the monarchy… before switching to the conservative side in 1996 and entering politics. She ran to become a deputy in 2001 and 2005, without success, then was finally elected in 2010. Two years later, she entered the government, as Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Education, then saw herself alternately entrust the leadership of the Ministry of the Environment (2014-2016), Justice (2016-2017), the position of number 2 of the Ministry of Economy (2017-2019), then takes the head of the ministry of International Trade (2019-2021), at the same time in charge of Women and Equality, before being appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2021. Despite this meteoric rise, Liz Truss was a figure of… anti-Brexit ( read above), before changing position on the subject. And to take the place of the figure of this historic decision?