If you’re reading this outside the UK, it might have come as a surprise this week to learn that Britain has yet another new prime minister – its fourth in six years – and even more of a surprise that the new leader is … Liz Truss.
When Boris Johnson stepped down earlier this year following the Partygate scandal, the then foreign secretary Truss was not at the top of the list of candidates tipped to replace him, with Conservative MPs strongly favouring the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, or trade minister Penny Mordaunt.
