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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill

Britain's new PM, Truss won support with her tough image

Liz Truss arrives at the Conservative Party headquarters, after being announced as Britain's next Prime Minister, in London, Britain September 5, 2022. REUTERS/Phil Noble

If it's not the pictures of her standing atop a tank in a nod to Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, it's the moment when she vented her anger over cheese imports into Britain that made Liz Truss something of a household name.

For many, she was a figure of fun. But for those in the governing Conservative Party who had to choose Boris Johnson's successor, it was her conversion to avid Brexit supporter and her offer of tax cuts that propelled her to become Britain's next prime minister.

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