Liz Truss is already the new British Prime Minister and is expected to announce a rate freeze

Liz Truss took office as the new British Prime Minister under a phenomenal storm and fog in Scotland at Balmoral Palace. It was very difficult for the pilots to land in Aberdeen. Queen Elizabeth, weakened in her mobility, asked him in the Drawing Room of her Gothic holiday residence to form a government, after accepting the resignation of Boris Johnson, her predecessor.

Then she went to London. Normally the Prime Minister gives his speech in front of Downing St. But time could ruin those plans. It will be after 4pm UK time.

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss arrived on different planes for safety reasons. First Boris, to resign and return to London and, shortly thereafter, the new prime minister, from the Northolt base, along with her accountant husband, Hugh O Leray, who will continue to practice her.

After six weeks of campaigning against economist Rishi Sunak across the kingdom, Liz has won and will have the titanic mission of forming a government, as requested by the queen. The resignation of Boris Johnson’s government began yesterday evening.

Boris Johnson arrived first at 11:20 British time at Balmoral and formally handed his resignation to the queen.

After his departure, his successor was invited to his first private audience with the monarch. A ceremony called “kissing hand”, although there are no kissing hands but a small bow to the sovereign. Arrived in Balmoral around 12:10 pm, later than expected, due to fog. The sovereign received her and asked her to form a government. The first cabinet meeting of the new conservative administration will be held on Thursday.

back to london

After his half hour with the Queen, Prime Minister Truss returned to London. There he will give his first prime ministerial address at around 4pm. The announcement of the freeze on energy rates is expected, in an unprecedented gesture for conservatives, given the increase in the cost of living due to the consequences of the war in Ukraine.

A strange choreography for a transfer of power, which is celebrated at Buckingham Palace. But the queen was advised against by doctors for reasons of mobility and for the first time in history everything was moved to her Scottish palace.

Upon your return to Downing St, you will be greeted by the Cabinet Secretary at the door of number 10. You will be greeted by staff, before proceeding to the Cabinet Room for information on security and intelligence from civil servants.

You will be given the nuclear codes. He will write “letters of last resort” to commanders of submarines carrying Trident nuclear missiles with orders on what to do if the government is wiped out by a nuclear attack.

Truss is expected to start a government reshuffle tomorrow afternoon. Political fanatics are already speculating on who will take the top spots.

However, the busy day will not be over yet, as he will then receive phone calls from his ally, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Joe Biden, and other global heads of state wishing him well in his new role.

An “inconsistent” prime minister.

Liz Truss’ fellow parliamentarians tend to treat her as a joke. A boring speaker in a political profession that values ​​powerful rhetoric and a ruthless self-promoter in a world that likes to belittle people.

“Inconsistent”, “a robot that lacks a bit of technique”, “someone lock her in a cage” are just some of her colleagues’ ideas about the prime minister, who dreams of being Maggie Thatcher. He was even photographed on top of a tank, as the symbolic image of the Iron Lady.

Good opinion among the Tories

But Liz got a very good opinion from party activists, who are important in conservative politics. Not only because they make key decisions (Boris Johnson was chosen as prime minister by a college of 160,000 party members), but also because they create and reflect broader currents of opinion. What is it about Ms. Truss that the conservative base finds her so endearing? She dresses like Maggie Thatcher, to accentuate similarities, defending traditional Tory values, even if her beliefs are short-lived.

His acceptance speech was short and simple: “I will work for the British people”.

There is enormous skepticism in the Tory party about its mission, when sanctions were voted on by 22,000 people to reach the position. She is the third female minister of the kingdom and has to face one of the most monumental crises: the very high cost of living, unpaid energy bills, a movement that she calls “not paying” and can lead to the bankruptcy of electricity companies, the war in Ukraine. You have a very simple, magical and Brexitier speech to deal with this tidal wave of political, social and economic kingdom plus the war in Ukraine.

Liz prevailed over Rishi Sunak with 81,326 votes to 60,399. Not a large majority like the other ministers but these are times of crisis.

monumental crisis

Inflation will hit 10.1 percent in July and could reach 22 percent, according to Goldman Sachs, by the end of the year. Energy bills in family homes will increase by up to 80% and thousands of businesses will be forced to close. The suffering will be for millions of suddenly impoverished middle-class families and for the most defenseless. The decline in lifestyle will be the worst since World War II.

His handling of the energy crisis and bills will be crucial to his political future. If he fails, he will never recover and his rule will be short. Some believe that he will no longer get Christmas in office because the Conservative parliamentary party will reject his policies.

A Savior Chancellor

It will be the chancellor of finance, Kwasi Kwarteng, who will have to implement economic policies and social depreciation. Educated in Eton on a scholarship, Trinity College, Harvard University and Cambridge, this son of Ghanaian immigrants will be the breadwinner of this “light” Mini Maggie Thatcher, in one of the worst and most dangerous crises of the 21st century. You should look for better liquidity in the energy market.

The other possibility is that you block your energy bills at a price not exceeding £ 1,921 per year. This decision would be a shock to the conservatives and the markets, I could announce it today or Thursday.

the queen of instagram

With left-wing parents, anti-monarchists in his youth, when he proposed a referendum to eliminate the monarchy, the new prime minister was a liberal democrat who love turned into a conservative.

He fell in love with Tory Hugh O’Leary, an accountant, and had two daughters. She then had an affair with her parliamentary mentor, Mark Field, a married Conservative MP, whom her husband forgave and for which she was nearly expelled from the party. You have gone from being pro-European to anti-European and Brexitier. In the House of Commons she is called the “queen of Instagram”.

Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that, in their only interview together, Liz spent two hours asking her how she managed to be twice on the cover of Vogue magazine.

Tax or energy

During the election campaign he embraced tax cuts as his opponent Rishi Sunak spoke of the need to subsidize energy bills and take urgent action against the cost of living. He twirled in the air when at “daggers” or meetings across the country, people began to criticize his politics, his way of challenging the conservative leadership. The premier’s convictions are unstable. So he embraced the cost of living and energy.

He believes in a “small” state, mistrusts the establishment and his reconversion comes from a family “which is on the left of Labor”. Like David Cameron, he studied politics, philosophy and economics at Merton College, at the University of Oxford. There she became a liberal democratic militant. In 1996 he joined the ranks of the Conservatives. He worked at the Shell oil company and in government relations at Cable & Wireless.

She was secretary of the environment, international trade and then chancellor of the conservatives. There you imposed a hard line on Russia, secured the release of British hostages in Iran and alarmed at Chinese threats.

Today he faces a difficult world, with war in Ukraine, lack of energy, a strongly divided kingdom, a Brexit that is a failure and his conservative party at war. A difficult program to win.

LG