Liz Truss has officially become the U.K.’s new prime minister after a leadership contest triggered by Boris Johnson’s resignation in early July.
, who traditionally appoints each British prime minister in a brief ceremony that is now mostly a formality. Still, over her 70-year reign , this marks the first one held outside of Buckingham Palace. Due to the monarch’s ongoing health issues, it was decided it would be more convenient for the country’s new political leader to travel to the Queen’s summer estate in Scotland.
Truss’s victory came not via a general election but instead an internal ballot cast by Conservative Party members, and she will inherit a country in a state of emergency, whose deep divisions are only set to widen as the various crises facing it escalate.
Truss had previously refused to commit to extra help for families struggling with energy bills, but she is now expected to reverse tack, offering a freeze ahead of the steep rises anticipated in October.
Today’s decision will only continue to stoke controversy around the Conservative Party’s tenuous hold on leadership in the U.K. since the calamitous end of Johnson’s government. Crashing out of office after becoming mired in scandal, Johnson claimed to be a “booster rocket” for the country during his exit speech at 10 Downing Street today. Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader, described the speech as “completely deluded.
“We have huge reserves of talents of energy and determination. I am confident that together we can ride out the storm,” she continued. “We can rebuild our economy, and we can become the modern brilliant Britain that I know we can be.”
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