Conservative Liz Truss takes office as UK prime minister and renews cabinet

conservative Liz Farm promised to take United Kingdom out of the economic storm by becoming Britain’s new prime minister on Tuesday, ending Boris Johnson’s controversial three-year term.

“No matter how strong this storm is, I know that the British people are stronger (…). Together we can overcome the storm,” he began in a short speech in front of the famous door of number 10. Downing Streetwhere a few minutes earlier heavy rain had threatened to dampen the action.

He has listed the economy, public health and the energy crisis as his top three priorities, and has pledged to take “action to pay his energy bills” this week, a shot that is choking the British.

Soon after, Downing Street announced the first ministerial appointments with people from minorities, but primarily identified with their ultra-liberal and conservative positions, to major posts.

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The fight against inflation will be in the hands of the Minister of Finance, Kwasi Kwarteng47 years old, son of immigrants from Ghana who came to United Kingdom in the 1960s.

Foreign portfolio shrank to James Cleverly, staunch Brexit supporter, 53, whose mother is from Sierra Leone.

The Ministry of the Interior was instructed Suella BravermanA 42-year-old former lawyer who will handle a confidential case on illegal immigrants the government wants to deport from Rwanda. Succeeds in possession Farm.

Audience with the Queen

Farm47, was declared the winner on Monday in the internal leadership election Conservative Partyin front of the former finance minister Rishi Sunak42-year-old billionaire, former banker, grandson of immigrants from India.

She was received by Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday Balmoral Castleroyal summer residence Scotlandwhere he instructed him to form a government as the new Majority Leader.

At the same time, he made his first international contacts, having phoned the American and Ukrainian presidents, Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky to whom he expressed his “full support” in the war against Russia.

The third woman to head the British executive after Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) and Theresa May (2016-2019), Farm He represents the very right wing of the Conservative Party and has campaigned promising tax cuts to support the British economy, which is on the verge of recession.

“That’s All Guys”: Johnson’s farewell

The handover usually takes place in Buckingham, central London, less than 10 minutes by car from Downing Street. But this year, due to the 96-year-old queen’s movement problems, Farm and its predecessor had to travel over 800 km to Scotland.

Johnson has formally resigned as prime minister, “which Her Majesty has graciously accepted,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement.

Scandalous conservative politician, 58, forced to resign in early July by his own deputies, outraged by the increase in scandals, resigned Downing Street in the morning, with a speech delivered at his gate to a crowd of supporters and family members.

He summed up his three-year tenure by recalling that in 2019 he secured the most important Conservative majority since 1987 by pledging a Brexit that seemed impossible after years of political chaos.

From the “fastest giveaway in Europe vaccines against COVID-19before “an early supply of weapons to the Ukrainian troops” against the Russian invasion, having survived “at least unemployment, which he had not seen since 10 years”, he summed up his achievements.

“I am like one of those boosters that have done their job, and now I will carefully enter the atmosphere” and “I will offer this government only my most ardent support,” he said.

Liz Truss and her main challenge: hunger

On Wednesday, Farm will preside over his first council of ministers, and he will have to face the House of Commons Leader of the Opposition, Labor Keir Starmerwho on Monday accused her of being “not on the side of the working people”, choking on more than 10% inflation.

british houses As of October, they will face an 80 percent increase in the top rate on their gas and electricity bills, and many companies and institutions, including hospitals and schools, have warned they will have to cut or even close due to being unable to pay.

Elected in a ballot open only to 172000 branches Conservative Partyin a country of 67 million people, polls have shown that most Britons do not trust the ability Farm to overcome the crisis.

(According to AFP)