Liz Truss vows tax cuts after winning vote to be next British PM
Source: Reuters
LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Liz Truss will become Britain's next prime minister after winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party on Monday, vowing to press ahead with promises of tax cuts and to deal with a growing energy crisis. After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive leadership contest, Truss, currently the foreign minister, defeated former finance minister Rishi Sunak in a vote of Conservative Party members, winning by 81,326 votes to 60,399.
"I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy," Truss said after the result was announced. "I will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people's energy bills, but also dealing with the long-term issues we have on energy supply." Truss takes over as the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest, a recession and war in Europe, where Britain has been a leading backer of Ukraine. She appeared to rule out another national election for the next two years, saying she would win a great victory for her party in 2024.
She succeeds Boris Johnson, who was forced to announce his resignation in July after months of scandal saw support for his administration drain away. He will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday to officially tender his resignation. Truss will follow him and be asked to form a government by the monarch. Long the front-runner to replace him, Truss will become the Conservatives' fourth prime minister since a 2015 election.
Over that period the country has been buffeted from crisis to crisis, and now faces what is forecast to be a long recession triggered by sky-rocketing inflation which hit 10.1% in July. Foreign minister under Johnson, Truss, 47, has promised to act quickly to tackle the cost of living crisis, saying that within a week she will come up with a plan to tackle rising energy bills and securing future fuel supplies.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britains-truss-expected-be-named-conservative-leader-new-pm-2022-09-05/
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LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Liz Truss was named as Britain's next prime minister on Monday, winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession. After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive leadership contest that saw the foreign minister face off against former finance minister Rishi Sunak, Truss came out on top in a vote of Conservative Party members.
The announcement triggers the start of a handover from Boris Johnson, who was forced to announce his resignation in July after months of scandal saw support for his administration drain away. He will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday to officially tender his resignation. Truss will follow him and be asked to form a government by the monarch.
Long the front-runner in the race to replace Johnson, Truss will become the Conservatives' fourth prime minister since a 2015 election. Over that period the country has been buffeted from crisis to crisis, and now faces what is forecast to be a long recession triggered by sky-rocketing inflation which hit 10.1% in July. Foreign minister under Boris Johnson, Truss, 47, has promised to act quickly to tackle Britain's cost of living crisis, saying that within a week she will come up with a plan to tackle rising energy bills and securing future fuel supplies.
Truss has signalled during her leadership campaign she would challenge convention by scrapping tax increases and cutting other levies in a move some economists say would fuel inflation. That, plus a pledge to review the remit of the Bank of England while protecting its independence, has prompted some investors to dump the pound and government bonds.
GoneOffShore
(17,346 posts)She thinks she's the reincarnation of Twatcher where she's really just a somewhat brighter Palin.
3Hotdogs
(12,505 posts)jmowreader
(50,614 posts)This is the monetary policy remit, which the Chancellor specifies in a letter to the Governor of the Bank of England.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monetary-policy-remit
3Hotdogs
(12,505 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,949 posts)to suit a select class of ultra-rich conservatives and a Russian dictator who fronts for them.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)Mysterian
(4,614 posts)Get a clue, friends.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,128 posts)paleotn
(18,041 posts)And they'd be right. 74M Americans voted for a fascist narcissist in 2020.
róisín_dubh
(11,803 posts)Hopefully she's as ineffective as expected and they have to call a new General Election.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,440 posts)(which is up to December 2024). The Tories have a secure majority in the Commons, so they'd either wait as long as possible in the hope that things improve despite her, or they'd replace her again with yet another try at a competent leader - in which case they'd need as long as possible to put their spin on things.
paleotn
(18,041 posts)Since when have conservatives actually been fiscally conservative, i.e. cautious and financially sound? On both sides of the pond for that matter. Review the remit of the BOE? Sounds like our nutters wanting to muck with the Fed.
Warpy
(111,529 posts)Tories are one trick ponies just like Republicans are.
Why anyone who isn't in the 0.01% would vote for these assholes is beyond me.
Turbineguy
(37,442 posts)Where have we heard this before?
edhopper
(33,704 posts)Ideas that should have died with Reagan and Thatcher but continue to rise from the dead.
Of course the reason for this is that the reason for tax cuts is to make the Rich richer, not help the economy.
Mr. Sparkle
(2,966 posts)she is a student of reagan and thatcher
PSPS
(13,655 posts)No mention, of course, of taxing their (and russia's) oligarchs, or addressing their being the money-laundering capital of the world, or the "Londongrad" problem, etc.
bahboo
(16,399 posts)"Truss will become the Conservatives' fourth prime minister since a 2015 election. Over that period the country has been buffeted from crisis to crisis, and now faces what is forecast to be a long recession triggered by sky-rocketing inflation which hit 10.1% in July."
DavidDvorkin
(19,520 posts)bahboo
(16,399 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,219 posts)and Labour might well get in then, but it may be too late to rescue the country.
DavidDvorkin
(19,520 posts)With a majority of 71 seats, the Conservatives aren't likely to face the electorate before then.
Let's hope you're wrong about it being too late.
Delphinus
(11,850 posts)this isn't what I wanted to hear. My husband and I talked about this last night and I said I hope Labor and the Lib Dems were going to be able to work together, building a coalition to help the people.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,440 posts)Keir Starmer has ruled out even an informal post-election deal with Liberal Democrats, following a similar pledge about the Scottish National party, as Labour seeks to close down Conservative accusations about a possible coalition.
Interviewed by Bloomberg, the Labour leader said his party would not go into coalition with anyone, including the Lib Dems, who under current polling could win a series of Conservative-held seats in the next election.
Asked whether this commitment also covered a more informal deal such as confidence and supply, under which Lib Dems could commit to supporting a minority Labour government without a formal coalition, Starmer replied: Im ruling out any arrangement.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/18/starmer-rules-out-even-informal-post-election-deal-with-lib-dems
bucolic_frolic
(43,614 posts)Whew-boy! They found an economist to espouse this program?
IronLionZion
(45,700 posts)Don't they have any liberals?
LeftishBrit
(41,219 posts)in fact, the proportion of women MPs in the Labour and LibDem parties is close to 50%, while the Tories are far more male-dominated.
But you are right about the three PMs.
Liz Truss is a total idiot. Ugh.
IronLionZion
(45,700 posts)in the UK and the US
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,631 posts)elleng
(131,598 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,440 posts)Link to tweet
featuring the world's most ineffective bleeping. You can properly hear the 'sh' and the 't', but apparently the full word 'shit' is just too much. However, 'turd' (and 'piss') don't need bleeping. Ah, the NYT's sense of decorum.
elleng
(131,598 posts)Would help my DU compatriots if I did so (even considering NYT's sense of decorum!)
IcyPeas
(21,966 posts)in 2 weeks?
Richard_GB
(53 posts)Liz Truss has delusions of adequacy.
Grins
(7,291 posts)Shes a conservative, all right!
moondust
(20,042 posts)who wanted to abolish the monarchy.
She was a
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-58575895
Maybe next week she'll be a ham sandwich.
BumRushDaShow
(130,368 posts)She was born in July of 1975 and Thatcher became PM in 1979 when she was 4 years old. She would have barely been a teen "in the '80s" (through to the end of that decade) before Thatcher finally stood down in 1990.
DFW
(54,587 posts)She has already earned my dis-Truss-t.
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