Liz Truss

Liz Truss, who is widely expected to win the Conservative leadership contest, has pledged she will make an announcement on support for energy bills “o...

“And what I think is completely wrong is the idea that we take huge swathes of people’s money … Sticking plasters and kicking the can down the road will not do,” she said. Former Chancellor and fellow leadership contender Rishi Sunak. “And we need to make sure that we get through it and we need to have every tool in the toolbox and that certainly – as we're seeing in European countries – is certainly one of them. But what I am saying philosophically is I always favour people keeping more of their own money first. “What I can say is that if I'm elected as prime minister, within one week, I will make sure there is an announcement on how we are going to deal with the issue of energy bills and of long term supply to put this country on the right footing for winter,” Truss told the BBC.

Truss is facing Rishi Sunak, the government's former Treasury chief, in the contest to become Conservative Party leader.

Truss is facing Rishi Sunak, the government's former Treasury chief, in the contest to become Conservative Party leader and so prime minister. Goldman Sachs has estimated that inflation could soar to 22% by next year unless something is done to mitigate high energy prices. She stressed, however, that she understands the magnitude of the problems facing Britain.

The Tory leadership favourite says she would act immediately on bills - but gives no further details.

But she added: "To look at everything through the lens of redistribution I believe is wrong. And what's happened is we've had relatively low growth". He also said he couldn't rule out the prospect of blackouts over the winter to ration supplies, as the situation was "serious" and "every tool in the toolbox" would be needed. Pressed on whether richer people would benefit more from the cut, she said: "The people at the top of the income distribution pay more tax - so inevitably, when you cut taxes you tend to benefit people who are more likely to pay tax." She added that further support would need to go "hand in hand" with a plan to boost domestic energy supplies, arguing the UK had become too dependent on international energy prices. Speaking on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Foreign Secretary Ms Truss said action on energy bills would be "vital" for people and the economy.

Liz Truss has vowed to outline her plan to deal within the energy crisis within a week if she wins the Tory leadership race - but she said it would be wrong ...

But I look forward to supporting the Conservative government in whatever capacity." "To look at everything through the lens of redistribution, I believe, is wrong. I understand what people are facing on energy bills." I need to recover from this one. He went on to say that Ms Truss was a "formidable" chief secretary to the Treasury when he was chancellor, and that she "works very hard". "And it must be a cabinet that reflects the talent across the Conservative Party and sends a message to the country that this will be a government that focuses on delivery, on competence, on honesty and on applying those values in a pragmatic way." However, when it was put to him that it sounded like he was "more on the Rishi Sunak side", he said: "I look at the bookies odds, I look at the polling and I'm pretty sure we're going to have a Truss government." "It's going to be on a par with the furlough scheme in terms it's going to tens of billions of costs." He said cutting taxes is "simply not the answer" to the cost of living crisis and his advice for the next incumbent of No 10 is to be "honest with the British people about the challenges we are facing in the short term". He said: "We've just finished this campaign. She said: "If I'm elected as prime minister, within one week I will make sure there is an announcement on how we are going to deal with the issue of energy bills and of long-term supply to put this country on the right footing for winter." Liz Truss has vowed to outline her plan to deal within the energy crisis within a week if she wins the Tory leadership race - but she said it would be wrong to go into detail before the contest is over.

At around 12.30pm this afternoon, the returning officer for the Conservative leadership election - chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench MPs, ...

I think he would be very successful in a further general election." She'll want to show the public she hears them." [Read more: Who is in the running for top jobs in the next government?](https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-leadership-contest-whos-in-the-running-for-the-top-jobs-in-the-next-government-12680338) [hinted that this may not be the end of his career in frontline politics](https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-could-make-political-comeback-ally-lord-lister-hints-and-says-never-write-him-off-12689772). [Read more: What time is the result and what happens next?](https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-leadership-race-what-time-is-the-result-and-what-happens-next-12690139) [energy bills set to rise](https://news.sky.com/topic/energy-crisis-9741) to around £3,500 this winter for the average household. [promised to unveil a plan to deal with the energy crisis within a week](https://news.sky.com/story/im-ready-to-take-action-on-energy-bills-vows-truss-as-johnson-urges-party-unity-12689524) if she becomes PM. And Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby understands from political and Whitehall sources that - if she wins the leadership contest - Ms Truss will announce a package of support that is going to be bigger than perhaps expected. [leadership race](https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-leadership-race-draws-to-a-close-as-voting-ends-with-winner-to-be-announced-on-monday-12687923) will be looking ahead to appointing their top team after visiting the Queen in Balmoral. On the eve of the announcement, Ms Truss - who has been widely tipped to defeat rival Mr Sunak for the majority of the contest - At around 12.30pm, the returning officer for the Conservative leadership election - chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench MPs, Sir Graham Brady - will announce the result of the contest. At around 12.30pm this afternoon, the returning officer for the Conservative leadership election - chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench MPs, Sir Graham Brady - will announce the result of the contest.

Mr Johnson himself will be breathing down her neck. We know from every unrepentant word he has uttered since Tory MPs acted to evict him that he burns with ...

To satisfy his vanity and secure what he sees as his historical reputation, he needs to be seen as the exceptional Tory of his generation, the only one capable of securing the party a big majority. He sees this as a mortal threat to any hopes of a comeback. Any attempt on her part to stymie the investigation would ignite outrage and be taken as confirmation that she is There are lots of reasons to think that the notion of a Johnson comeback is delusional. There’s also a tension with his desire to amass wealth, because he will be obliged to declare all his extracurricular earnings so long as he remains an MP. One senior Tory predicts: “He will be goaded on by his acolytes to be oppositional.” He is well-practised at playing the prince over the water while subverting the Tory leader of the day. The easy route to quick riches will be making speeches, especially to audiences in America, country of his birth. Now he will seize the opportunity to make stacks of cash. His new employer will not want to pay big money for opinion pieces blandly supportive of his successor. I assume, as pollsters, politicians and civil servants all do, that the next tenant of Number 10 will be “Hasta la vista, baby,” he signed off from the dispatch box, an unsubtle signal that he thinks he could contrive a Berlusconi-like return to power. A man whose only loyalty is to himself will not care a jot about that.

If Liz Truss prevails in the race for the Conservative leadership, the 47-year-old will become Britain's third female prime minister. Her opponent Rishi Sunak ...

Rishi Sunak vs Liz Truss: The new leader will have a forbidding in-tray, with the UK facing a grim winter of surging inflation, recession and a record ...

At least 10 people were killed and 15 others have been injured in a series of knife attacks in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, early morning on Sunday (local time). Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency Sunday afternoon in Chattooga and Floyd Counties, directing all state resources to help with “preparation, response and recovery activities.” The National Weather Service said rainfall of up to one inch per hour was causing creeks, streams, roadways and urban areas to experience unusually high levels of water. "We have located 10 deceased individuals in 13 locations in the community of James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Saskatchewan," Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore told a news conference. Neither candidate boasts the charisma that Johnson deployed to such effect when spearheading the campaign for Brexit in 2016 and securing his party’s biggest majority since 1987 at the last general election. She’s also ruled out imposing any new windfall taxes on energy profits to finance help for households, even as a Treasury analysis estimates the sector generating as much as £170 billion of excess profits over the next two years. A period of governing paralysis over the summer, with Johnson in place but his administration holding off major decisions, has not helped. The contest to succeed Johnson became increasingly bitter in recent weeks, with senior Tories including Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab and former Cabinet minister Michael Gove disparaging Truss’s plans. He only entered Parliament in 2015 and had a dizzying ascent through the ranks to become chancellor in early 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Voting in the two-month contest closed on Friday, and a result is due to be announced at 12:30 p.m. But she’s refused to give specifics on how she’ll help pensioners and the lowest earners, who wouldn’t benefit from the National Insurance cut. That brought him to national prominence as he unrolled hundreds of billions of pounds of support to help businesses and workers through successive lockdowns. The winner will take power on Tuesday after the outgoing and incoming premiers have met with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral, her castle in Scotland.

Ahead of the results being announced, several reports suggested Ms Truss is strongly considering freezing energy bills to help households through the cost-of- ...

[Sir Keir Starmer](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/sir-keir-starmer) at the dispatch box in the House of Commons for their first Prime Minister’s Questions at noon. Reports in The Daily Telegraph and The Times suggest that Ms Truss is likely to introduce an energy bills freeze in some form. The package could be on the sale of the furlough scheme introduced by then-chancellor Rishi Sunak when the Covid-19 pandemic struck, reported The Times. However, Brexit and his election success put him above May and Cameron, writes Sean O’Grady [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) However, Brexit and his election success put him above May and Cameron, writes Sean O’Grady. [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. “As parents battle rising costs of living, soaring childcare costs are making life ever harder for families,” she said. [Where does Boris Johnson stand in the pantheon of modern British prime ministers?](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-prime-minister-uk-b2159346.html) [Kwasi Kwarteng](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/kwasi-kwarteng), who is expected to be Britain’s next [chancellor](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/chancellor), said [Liz Truss](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/liz-truss) will not blow a hole in the public finances as he strived to reassure [markets](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/markets) ahead of the results of the Tory leadership race. [When will the Tory leadership result be announced?](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-rishi-sunak-tory-leadership-result-vote-when-b2159333.html) [Conservative Party](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/conservative-party) leadership race to replace [Boris Johnson](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/boris-johnson) are scheduled to be announced in Westminster at 12.30pm by [Sir Graham Brady](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/sir-graham-brady), chairman of the party’s [1922 Committee](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/1922-committee) of backbenchers.

The UK will learn on Monday who will be its next prime minister, with Liz Truss the favourite to succeed Boris Johnson and take charge as the country ...

I mean, we're facing a genuine emergency. "We shouldn't rule anything out. She said Sunday she would "within a month present a full plan for how we are going to reduce taxes" and "get the British economy going". "If I'm elected prime minister, I will act immediately on bills and on energy supply," Truss told the BBC on Sunday, while declining to give details. Postal and online voting closed Friday after eight weeks of campaigning that Truss described to the BBC as "the longest job interview in history". The UK will learn on Monday who will be its next prime minister, with Liz Truss the favourite to succeed Boris Johnson and take charge as the country battles a spiralling cost-of-living crisis.

In today's newsletter: From forming a cabinet to countering Covid, how will the presumptive next prime minister get started?

[Sign up here](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/12/the-upside-sign-up-for-our-weekly-email) for a weekly roundup of The Upside, sent to you every Sunday Meanwhile, [Brighton beat Leicester 5-2](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/sep/04/brighton-leicester-premier-league-match-report) to leave the visitors still bottom of the table. [has beaten defending champion and world No 1 Daniil Medvedev](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/sep/05/nick-kyrgios-stuns-world-no-1-daniil-medvedev-to-reach-us-open-last-eight) to reach the last eight of the US Open. [Merope Mills’ piece](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/03/13-year-old-daughter-dead-in-five-weeks-hospital-mistakes)for Saturday magazine about the preventable errors that led to the death of her daughter Martha is a staggering indictment of medical failure. [won a thrilling match against Arsenal 3-1](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/sep/04/manchester-united-arsenal-premier-league-match-report), with a goal from debutant Antony and two from Marcus Rashford. The Mail’s lead, about Joe Lycett’s appearance on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, is “Now BBC comic mocks Liz Truss” while in Scotland the Record leads with the verdict of Nicola Sturgeon on the Tory race: “Truss will be a disaster”. With pressure on NHS resources also likely to be elevated by an [especially acute flu season](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/09/what-are-the-impending-threats-to-the-nhs-this-autumn), Truss and her likely choice as health secretary Thérèse Coffey may come under pressure from medical and scientific advisers to act – but Truss has already ruled out further lockdowns, and [said that](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2022/aug/25/conservative-party-hustings-covid-lockdown-went-too-far-say-truss-and-sunak-video) restrictions at the peak of the pandemic were too strict. [low personal favourability ratings](https://novaramedia.com/2022/08/30/voters-already-hate-liz-truss/) – and a winter of fuel poverty in the post. [she said in July](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/ukraines-greatest-friend-uks-truss-pledges-more-support-kyiv-2022-07-28/). Truss appears to have little interest in conciliation: she has [promised to legislate within 30 days](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/25/liz-truss-pledges-crackdown-on-unions-but-is-accused-of-tory-fantasy) to restrict key workers’ legal rights to strike through so called “minimum service levels”. Once the immediate emergency is in hand – not that many observers expect that to be easily achieved – Truss told Kuenssberg that “we also need to sort out the supply issues”. On the same programme, Truss spoke in terms that indicated her awareness that she needs to hit the ground running in the midst of economic and energy crises as severe as any a new prime minister has faced in living memory.

The winner of the Tory leadership contest is revealed later - before becoming PM on Tuesday.

And the stakes are high, for voters are worried about their bills most of all. But also for the Conservative Party, worried about its future. [travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62728328) to be appointed by the Queen, rather than at Buckingham Palace. That will include tax cuts and help for families and businesses. The original field of 11 contenders was whittled down to two in a series of Tory MP ballots, with the final pair going into a run-off to be decided by the membership, which stands at about 160,000. Mr Johnson was forced out in July by a ministerial revolt over a string of scandals, just over two-and-a-half years after leading the Tories to a landslide victory at the 2019 election. Ms Truss did not rule out a freeze on Sunday but has previously described the idea as a "sticking plaster" and argues more needs to be done to help the UK boost its domestic sources of energy. She said any further support would have to go "hand in hand" with efforts to boost nuclear energy, fracking for shale gas and more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. On Sunday the foreign secretary declined to say whether further help would be universal or targeted at the most needy, saying she would need time in office to iron out the details of her plan. After weeks of talking to Conservative members, the new prime minister will have to start talking to the country immediately. Ms Truss is yet to offer details of her cost-of-living support plan beyond saying she will temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills and reverse the rise in National Insurance introduced during Mr Johnson's tenure. BBC News has been told that a menu of options has been worked up in Whitehall to help struggling households, including a freeze on energy bills.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is favourite to be the new British prime minister when results of the leadership contest are announced later today.

She is going to be the next Prime Minister and we will work with her." Only 35% of Conservative Party members thought Mr Johnson should have stayed, according to an opinion poll taken at the time of his resignation. Then after the dramatic scenes that accompanied Mr Johnson's departure it seems that this was quickly followed by buyer's remorse. Liz Truss as the current favourite will want a big majority of Conservative Party members backing her if she is to be able to assert her leadership and put the bitterness of the campaign behind her. Now a group of around a dozen MPs are reported to be planning letters of no confidence in the new leader in a bid to bring Mr Johnson back. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is favourite to be the new British prime minister when results of the leadership contest are announced later today.

Foreign secretary widely tipped to win Conservative leadership race on Monday.

But I want to provide reassurance that this will be done in a fiscally responsible way. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. That is why I cannot go into details at this stage. Once the result of the contest is known, Mr Johnson and his successor will go to Balmoral, rather than Buckingham Palace, for the appointment of the new prime minister on Tuesday, in a break from tradition. She told the BBC “growing the economy benefits everybody” and it is “wrong” to look at everything through the “lens of redistribution”. “This is the moment for every Conservative to come together – and back that new leader wholeheartedly,” he wrote in the Sunday Express. The new leader is expected to make a speech following the announcement, before spending the rest of the day finalising their choices for Cabinet and wider ministerial roles and writing their first prime ministerial speech. “This is why it will take a week to sort out the precise plans and make sure we are able to announce them. Liz is committed to a lean state and, as the immediate shock subsides, we will work to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio over time,” he wrote. [Kwasi Kwarteng](/topic/kwasi-kwarteng), widely tipped to be the next chancellor if Ms Truss is successful on Monday, used an article in the Financial Times to stress that the next [Government](/topic/government) will behave in a “fiscally responsible” way. Mr Kwarteng, a close political and ideological ally of Ms Truss, offered a vision for how he would operate the Treasury as he said that the next Government would be “decisive and do things differently”.

Latest updates: follow all the developments as the new leader of the Conservatives is elected.

But perhaps Truss is also nervous about confirming that her first act as PM will be to announce a freeze on energy bills – a policy proposed by Labour last month, and also championed by Gordon Brown (who was regularly cited by Truss during the campaign as representing the sort of economic policy she rejected). But she did not deny that she was considering this in her BBC interview yesterday, and in the papers this morning there are multiple reports saying that this is what she is planning. I try to monitor the comments below the line (BTL) but it is impossible to read them all. [Boris Johnson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/boris-johnson) as prime minister after an audience with the Queen tomorrow, has seen that process inverted. But the Conservative party ballot, which will end today with Liz Truss all but certain to be chosen as the new leader, to replace When it was put to her that the rich would gain most from her plan to reverse the national insurance increase, Truss insisted her proposal was “fair”. And it’s essential that the political solutions that a government crafts, go with the grain of the laws of economics, because if you try and confront the laws of economics, you will come unstuck. (See [8.48am.)](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/sep/05/liz-truss-pm-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-energy-bill-freeze-tory-conservative-leader-uk-politics-live-latest-updates?page=with:block-6315a6ac8f0891b09bc876e1#block-6315a6ac8f0891b09bc876e1) Here are the key points. Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the backbench 1922 Committee, said there should be a “rethink” of the timetable before the next contest. Given the severity of the crisis we face, there will need to be some fiscal loosening to help people through the winter. As prime minister, Liz will take immediate action if elected that will help people with the challenges we face in the coming months, and lay the groundwork for the change we need in the long term. And yes, the Treasury will ensure that politicians, however senior, are confronted with the realities of the economic facts of life.

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been campaigning to be named the leader of the UK Conservative Party and replace Boris Johnson.

"But I want to provide reassurance that this will be done in a fiscally responsible way. It follows the resignation of Mr Johnson in July. Once the result of the contest is known, Mr Johnson and his successor will go to Balmoral, rather than Buckingham Palace, for the appointment of the new British prime minister on Tuesday, in a break from tradition. That is why I cannot go into details at this stage. The new leader is expected to make a speech following the announcement, before spending the rest of the day finalising their choices for Cabinet and wider ministerial roles and writing their first prime ministerial speech. The cost of living crisis is expected to be at the top of the agenda for whoever wins the race to Number Ten.

The votes are in and Britain's next Prime Minister will be revealed on Monday, with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak vying for the coveted Tory leadership. The results ...

She is the third British female leader. Truss' mother only decided at the last moment to support her when she first ran for office and was on the campaign trail with her. She became a conservative, a claim bitterly contested by others. Time will tell. Colleagues at Leeds University are said to have been sent an email by the university warning them not to speak publicly about his daughter. The results will be announced at 12.30pm GMT on Monday, Sept 5.

Liz Truss, who is expected to be named as Britain's next prime minister on Monday, is considering freezing energy bills in response to the spiralling cost ...

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Voting among the estimated 200,000 Tory members charged with choosing Boris Johnson's successor closed on Friday, and either the foreign secretary or Rishi ...

He added: “There is a general sense that nothing is really working anymore, and neither of the candidates to be prime minister had any answer to those issues ... [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) “He welcomed chaos because he thought it created opportunities. It was, after all, how he got Brexit done. [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. Electricity, gas and water at the No 10 and No 11 flats are covered by the state as a “benefit in kind” – with Ms Truss only set to pay tax on the perk of around £1,980 this winter – meaning she “won’t face the same concerns” as ordinary Britons, Labour said. [Liz Truss warned against ‘bad’ Boris Johnson mistake of filling cabinet with friends](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-cabinet-boris-johnson-b2159908.html) [is on course to repeat](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-cabinet-boris-johnson-b2155988.html) Boris Johnson’s mistake of packing her first cabinet with only allies, a senior Tory peer has warned. “Anything for her under 60 per cent is bound to be read as a disappointment”, while a result aligned with Boris Johnson’s 2019 result of 66 per cent “would be an emphatic win”, he suggested. The polling found that 65 per cent of respondents think Ms Truss is “out of touch”, while half said she was “dislikeable”, and 45 per cent believe she is “incompetent”. Jill Rutter, a former civil servant and senior research fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe think-tank, suggested this issue “was the source of many Johnson disasters and how he managed to look like a minority PM with an 80 majority”. Polling from YouGov this weekend makes grim reading for Liz Truss and the Conservative Party more generally, with just 12 per cent of respondents believing the Tory leadership frontrunner would be a “good” or “great” prime minister.

Expected Tory winner again refuses to reveal details amid growing concerns about her plans to cut taxes.

“But I want to provide reassurance that this will be done in a fiscally responsible way. He said: “Families and businesses are feeling the impact across the United Kingdom and the world. “She’s clearly absolutely right that we’ve had dreadful growth over the last 15 years,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Overnight, the [Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-team-hold-talks-on-freezing-energy-bills-rlcq2t6c9) and [Daily Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/04/liz-truss-could-freeze-bills-avoid-energy-armageddon/) reported that her team has been in talks about potentially doing this, although such help could be more targeted than Labour’s universal proposal. Writing in the FT, Kwarteng said the UK economy was suffering the impact of the invasion of Ukraine and of Covid. Liz Truss could introduce a price freeze for some energy bills, it has emerged, as the MP widely tipped to be her chancellor if she is announced as the new Conservative leader promised her government would be “bold”.

The Conservative Party's leadership contest winner, Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak, will be announced Monday and installed as the British prime minister on ...

Conservative Party lawmakers said they could no longer trust a prime minister who prevaricated his way through scandal after scandal (and could no longer be counted on to help win elections). If Truss does emerge victorious, she would be Britain’s third female prime minister — following Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May. His predecessor, May, also called an early election, which lost her a parliamentary majority. As foreign secretary, she was a reliable NATO ally and Ukraine supporter, talking tough on Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. And Sunak’s leading role in Johnson’s ouster — angry Tories called him a “Brutus” — seemed to hurt him with the grass roots. [“kissing hands,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/11/next-uk-prime-minister-explainer/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22) his successor will bow or curtsy and ask the queen for permission to form a new government. [shapeshifting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/03/liz-truss-uk-prime-minister/?itid=lk_inline_manual_12) politician. [“selectorate”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/11/next-uk-prime-minister-explainer/?itid=lk_inline_manual_12&itid=lk_inline_manual_10) of 150,000 to 200,000 dues-paying Conservative Party members — about 0.3 percent of the population — determine the country’s political future. [YouGov poll](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/09/01/what-do-people-think-liz-truss), 12 percent of the general public say Truss will be a good or great prime minister compared with 52 percent who say she will be poor or terrible. An avalanche of resignations followed. [Liz Truss](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/03/liz-truss-uk-prime-minister/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) is far and away the favorite among the Tory activists who are selecting the leader of their party and the next leader of Britain in vote results to be announced Monday. [Sunak’s fiery departure](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/05/boris-johnson-sunak-javid/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7) as chancellor of the exchequer, or treasury secretary, in July that launched the revolt against Johnson.

Foreign secretary sees off former chancellor in race for Tory leadership. She will take over from Boris Johnson on Tuesday.

Liz Truss offers more of the same old failed Tory ideas that got us in this mess.” Paying tribute to her “friend” Johnson in her acceptance speech, Truss said: “Boris, you got Brexit done. In 2019, Boris Johnson won 66 percent of votes in the membership ballot, with Jeremy Hunt winning 34 percent. “I know our beliefs resonate with British people,” she said, adding: “I campaigned as a Conservative and will govern as a Conservative.” after comfortably seeing off rival Rishi Sunak in the race to lead the governing Conservative Party. [on a raft of promises](https://www.politico.eu/article/elizabeth-truss-uk-tory-government-policy-manifesto/) she made during the campaign and take the Conservatives — currently lagging in the polls — to victory at the next election.

Foreign secretary comfortably beats rival Rishi Sunak and faces daunting task of rescuing British economy.

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It is rare for prime ministers not to come to Downing Street with children in tow: David Cameron was the first prime minister to take paternity leave while in ...

Norma Major took it to a further extreme and lived separately with the young children in Huntingdon for some of the time her husband, John, was prime minister. “But I don’t want to go,” wailed the six-year-old. Guests in the Cameron Downing Street living room were expected to balance kids on their knees. But exactly how – and, indeed, whether – the new prime minister blends work and family in Downing Street remains to be seen. Recalling a war cabinet meeting that he attended, Stothard wrote that “in the half-darkness, the rooms resemble the site of a hastily finished children’s party. All the security arrangements make it incredibly hard for people to come and go,”