Liz Truss - report

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022

Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office, she stepped down amid a government crisis, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom. Truss previously held various Cabinet positions under prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, lastly as foreign secretary from 2021 to 2022. She became Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk in 2010.

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2021 2023 2024

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Liz Truss risks becoming the shortest-serving Prime Minister in 300 years. Calls from the backbenches for Ms Truss to step down reached a crescendo this week.
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss is fighting for her political survival. Her credibility is in tatters after the fallout from her radical economic growth plan. Truss sacked her friend and finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng. Backbenchers are discussing a "coronation" for Penny Mordaunt and Rishi Sunak.
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Pound hit an all-time record low of 1.03 against the US dollar on Monday. Bank of England has temporarily postponed plans to unwind some of its QE gilt holding. 30-year gilt yields now on track for their biggest daily decline since 1992.
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Liz Truss is set to reverse a three-year-old ban on fracking for shale gas. Truss believes that cutting stamp duty will encourage economic growth. Energy bills will be capped for two years at £2,500 as an attempt to address cost of living crisis.
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West Lancashire MP said she was "unable to continue" in her job. Announcement comes days before Labour party conference in Liverpool. Energy bills for a typical household will be frozen at £2,500 for two years.
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Truss said that the cost of the energy support would be laid out in more detail. Truss confirmed she would be reversing the national insurance hike and axing the planned increase to corporation tax.
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Liz Truss faces one of the worst in-trays in recent history. By October, the typical bill will be three times what it was 12 months earlier. Truss has inherited a faltering economy and inflation at a 40-year high.
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Foreign secretary won 81,326 votes (57.4%) of Tory members. She takes over from Boris Johnson, who was ousted by his own MPs. The winner will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth, who will ask new leader to form a government.
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Ex-Margaret Thatcher aide Nile Gardiner says Liz Truss will be Britain's new prime minister. Gardiner said Truss would be "exactly what Britain needs" Truss has a huge lead in the Conservative Party leadership contest.
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Liz Truss picked up 71 votes from Conservative MPs in the latest round of voting, up from 64 in the round prior to that. Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt came in third and was eliminated. Some 180,000 party members will be asked to choose either Truss or former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak.
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Trade minister came second in first round of voting, pushing Liz Truss into third. Suella Braverman has been knocked out of the race, leaving five candidates to head into the next round. A second vote by Tory MPs takes place later on Thursday.
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Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Jeremy Hunt, Nadhim Zahawi and Suella Braverman secured the 20 nominations needed to enter the contest. Rehman Chishti and Sajid Javid withdrew from the race. Grant Shapps won the backing of just one percent of readers.
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UEFA chiefs held emergency talks about moving the lucrative game away from St Petersburg's Gazprom Arena. Wembley and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium are said to be in the reckoning as replacement venues. Three Ukrainians - West Ham's Andriy Yarmolenko, Manchester City's Oleksandr Zinchenko and Everton's Vitalii Mykolenko - will be offered support by their clubs.
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Sergei Lavrov accused British delegation of grandstanding and failing to listen. He said: 'It seems like we listen but don't hear' Liz Truss hit back saying: 'I certainly wasn’t mute in our discussions earlier'