The British Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as its new chairman and prime minister. Truss is considered a hard worker, but a weak speaker. He wants to reduce taxes first.
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Liz Truss was elected on Monday afternoon as the chairman of the British Conservatives and at the same time as the country’s new prime minister. He received more than 81,000 votes in the member’s vote, while his opponent Rishi Sunak got about 60,000 votes.
1. Truss is a predictable workhorse
Liz Truss is characterized as a hard-working and competent politician. He considers, toils, finds out and sticks to his position. The problem with Truss is that he is not a compelling speaker.
Many conservative politicians speculated that Rishi Sunak, who lost the chairmanship race, wanted Truss against him precisely because he would be easy to cover in the election debates.
Until today, Liz Truss was Foreign Secretary in Boris Johnson’s government. The difference with its populist predecessor is great.
Johnson slipped out of tight spots lightning fast with a joke or a little lie. According to political opponents, when Truss is answering, you can see the stroller slowly dropping in his head.
Of course, characteristic of a politician, he also knows how to convincingly answer a question that he was not asked.
On the other hand, the fact that he is predictable can be considered a plus in relation to Truss.
Predictability was not Johnson’s trademark.
2. Truss called for the abolition of royal status
Liz Truss also had a wild time in her youth. The royals as well as the Iron Lady Thatcher got to hear their honor.
Liz Truss was born into a middle-class Oxford family. He went to school in Leeds and studied philosophy, political science and economics at Oxford University.
He accompanied the family to the anti-nuclear demonstrations and for a long time also belonged to the Liberal Democratic Party. He has also publicly demanded the abolition of the monarchy.
It is said that he was also a conservative prime minister in his youth Margaret Thatcher’s in protests against and even loudly demanded his resignation.
3. Thatcher is an example of mature Truss
At a mature age and even during the presidential race, Truss has wanted to be compared to Margaret Thatcher. Truss has tried to create an image of herself as a Thatcherian Iron Lady.
He has posed in a tank and in the TV studio has worn the same pattern as the model was wearing in his own time.
The Rautarouvaimago acts as a message in many directions. Thatcher is still held in high esteem in the Conservative Party. The party was strong at that time.
Intransigence is also of great value now that the party is very divided during Johnson’s term and needs a unifying figure.
A strong Thatcherian female figure as the front of the party is also a message to the Labor Party, which has never had a woman in its leadership.
4. Trussi’s own line
Truss opposed Britain’s exit from the EU, but bowed to Brexit under pressure.
So my line has been in the search, but now it has become brighter in Thatcherism.
Truss promises, among other things, extensive tax cuts and wants to reduce the role of the state.
The job is not easy. Britain will slip into an economic crisis next winter, like the rest of Europe. The prices of energy and cost of living continue to rise.
The chances of Truss’s success do not look enviable beforehand. Only 12 percent of Britons believe that he will succeed as prime minister.
In addition, his popularity has only decreased as the prime ministership has come closer.
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