Liz Truss is the new UK Prime Minister

• Liz Truss is a leading philosopher and economist in the UK.
• She beat Rishi Sunak.
• She will be in charge of guiding the entire nation.

Britain’s Conservative Party elected Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader on Monday, September 5 and she will take office as the UK’s new prime minister on Tuesday.

Truss beat her rival Rishi Sunak, the former head of the Treasury. Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to formally appoint Liz Truss on Tuesday. Only 180,000 members of the Conservative Party who pay dues were able to vote, according to the Associated Press.

Liz Truss is the new UK Prime Minister

Liz Truss has promised to increase defense spending and cut taxes but has not said how she will address rising costs of living. Thanks to her proposals, she was crowned the winner and received 81,326 votes against 60,399 for Sunak.

The ceremony with the queen will take place at the queen’s estate at Balmoral in Scotland, where the monarch is on vacation. The two-month standoff has left Britain in a power vacuum at a time when consumers, workers and businesses are struggling.

She will face great challenges

This required government action to mitigate the impact of rising food and energy prices. Prime Minister Boris Johnson no longer had the authority to make important political decisions after July 7, when he announced his intention to resign, according to AP.

With household energy bills set to rise as much as 80% next month, an estimated one in three households will face fuel shortages this winter, leaving millions of people choosing between eating and heating their homes.

“She faces a very, very difficult heritage”

The Bank of England has forecast inflation to rise 13.3% in October, a 42-year high, threatening to push Britain into a prolonged recession, in which Liz Truss is expected steer the ship.

«The new prime minister faces a very, very difficult heritage,» said Tim Bale, a political analyst and professor at Queen Mary University  London, regarding the complicated situation that the nation is going through and the responsibility that it entails.

Liz Truss is Britain’s new leader

Johnson was forced to resign after a series of ethics scandals that reached a peak in July, when dozens of cabinet ministers and lower-level officials resigned over his response to allegations of sexual misconduct by a top official. according to AP.

Under Britain’s parliamentary system of government, the center-right Conservative Party was allowed to hold an internal election to choose a new party leader and prime minister, without going to the electorate at large. A new general election is not required until December 2024.