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Who is Liz Truss, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister?

Former foreign secretary Liz Truss took over from Boris Johnson as UK prime minister on Tuesday after winning the Conservative leadership contest. A political shape-shifter, she has gone from being a radical who called for the abolition of the monarchy to a staunch economic liberal and Brexiteer.

Radio France Internationale

Liz Truss: 10 of the new prime minister’s biggest gaffes and awkward moments

From Brexit U-turns to forgetting where she is, we bring you the moments Britain’s new leader would probably much rather forget

The Independent UK

ITV Good Morning Britain viewers baffled over Susanna Reid's remarks after Boris Johnson's final speech

The outgoing Prime Minister bid farewell as he left No.10 Downing Street this morning

Manchester Evening News

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11 crisis issues in Liz Truss's bulging in-tray now she will be Prime Minister

The new Prime Minister inherits an economy that is juddering towards recession, a hike in energy bills and businesses on the brink of bankruptcy, writes Assistant Editor Jason Beattie

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson speech factchecked: How do the former PM’s claims about his legacy stack up?

Claims studded with half-truths, partial accounts and economies with the truth

The Independent UK

Where does Boris Johnson stand in the pantheon of modern British prime ministers?

He’s clearly not in the Churchill or Thatcher first class, and his personal flaws and precipitate fall from power means he’s demoted below the likes of Blair and Wilson in the second division. However, Brexit and his election success put him above May and Cameron, writes Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson's claims unpicked as departing Prime Minister gives rambling final speech

Before heading to Balmoral to tender his resignation to the Queen, the departing PM compared himself to a "booster rocket" and a Roman statesman.

Daily Mirror

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Patrick Minford: maverick economist who inspired Truss and Thatcher

Brexiter tells Guardian that new PM understands need for tax cuts and orthodoxy must be challenged to revitalise economy

The Guardian - UK

How Boris Johnson became the architect of his own downfall

From winning an election promising to ‘get Brext done’ through Covid-19 and Partygate, the former prime minister made plenty of mistakes, writes Andrew Woodcock. Now he has been replaced by Liz Truss

The Independent UK

Every word Boris Johnson said in his final speech as Prime Minister

Liz Truss will be appointed as Prime Minister later on Tuesday

Liverpool Echo

Liz Truss policies: New prime minister’s campaign promises

The new prime minister’s campaign promises on tax, healthcare, climate, Brexit and Ukraine

The Independent UK

Liz Truss: Who will be in Tory frontrunner’s cabinet as she prepares to replace Boris Johnson?

Firm favourite to become PM has been busy drawing up her top team ahead of expected coronation

The Independent UK

Hawkish Truss faces credibility test over Northern Ireland, EU

Liz Truss travels to Scotland on Tuesday to formalise her accession to Downing Street with Queen Elizabeth II. Hawkishness on Russia and China characterises the next British PM’s foreign policy agenda – but so does hawkishness with the EU over the Brexit deal’s Northern Ireland Protocol. Truss now faces a…

France 24

With economy in trouble, UK gets ‘disruptor in chief’ as leader

LONDON — Liz Truss is happy to make enemies. The U.K.’s next prime minister has likened bureaucrats to “gremlins,” insulted domestic and foreign leaders, and said British workers need more graft.

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The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage gin sparks Cornish controversy

Former Brexit party leader launches red, white and blue versions ‘made in the heart of Cornwall’

Belfast Live

Analysis: Liz Truss success or failure in Northern Ireland still shaped by Brexit fall-out

The UK's third female Prime Minister has an ever mounting in-tray of problems to address

ABC News

How Liz Truss, Britain's next prime minister, went from anti-monarchist rebel to the next Margaret Thatcher

Liz Truss has been sworn in as the 56th prime minister of the United Kingdom. But her early days on the path to Number 10 were far from Conservative.

Wales Online

Who is Liz Truss and how did she become PM?

Truss’s brand of economic libertarianism, political optimism and hawkishness proved decisive in the leadership contest

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The Independent UK

Read Priti Patel’s resignation letter in full as she quits as home secretary

Priti Patel resigned by letter on Monday following Liz Truss’s victory in the Tory leadership contest

The Guardian - UK

EU calls on Liz Truss to abide by Brexit deal

European leaders express hope for more constructive relationship with Britain’s new prime minister

Daily Mirror

Nigel Farage's Brexit-themed gin mocked online as tipple originates from Netherlands

The former UKIP leader's new gin range, which comes in red, white and blue, is made in Cornwall - but the spirit actually originated in 13th century Netherlands, critics have pointed out

Reuters

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

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.

The Independent UK

EU wants ‘constructive’ relationship with Truss to resolve NI Protocol stand-off

The impasse over the post-Brexit arrangements governing trade in Northern Ireland is one of the big-ticket issues in the new PM’s in-tray.

France 24

From Brexit to 'Partygate': Boris Johnson's divisive legacy as British PM

Boris Johnson is soon to leave Downing Street for the last time. According to a recent Ipsos survey, the British public rank him as the country's worst performing postwar leader. Johnson will be forever remembered as one of the men behind Brexit and as a PM who attended illegal parties…

The Independent UK

How Boris Johnson became the architect of his own downfall

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