How Britain’s new PM Liz Truss shed her liberal roots and styled herself on Margaret Thatcher to become the world’s newest right-wing leader.
As she heads to No. 10 Downing St., Truss looks eager to rule in the image of the famously blunt and strong-willed iconoclast — whose legacy still divides this country. Her victory means she will become the country’s third female leader, after Thatcher andThe “Iron Lady,” as Thatcher was known, was the 20th century’s longest serving British leader and birthed an ideology — Thatcherism — that still dominates the party with its low-tax, high-growth economic liberalism.
Left, Thatcher visiting British troops in Germany in September 1986. Right, Truss during NATO exercises in Estonia in November.While serving as foreign secretary, Truss was accused of consciously mirroring Thatcher by posing in a Challenger 2 tank while visiting British troops in Estonia — reminiscent of a famous picture of Thatcher in a Challenger tank in Germany in 1986.
During the Conservative leadership contest, Truss wore an outfit strikingly similar to one Thatcher had worn for an election broadcast in 1979 — a black blazer and a white shirt with a bow tied at the front.Simon Dawson / 10 Downing street“I don’t think there’s anything in it. They’re completely different people,” Truss supporter Andrea Andino, 52, insisted outside the venue where Truss was announced the new leader of the Conservative Party on Monday. Andino wore a T-shirt “In Liz We Truss”.
Liz Truss was installed in 2016 as Britain's Lord Chancellor, the first woman to hold the role, which dates back many centuries.“She’s a woman in politics, those comparisons are inevitable.” he said “She is Liz Truss, she is her own person.”
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