{"id":99026,"date":"2022-09-07T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T07:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99026"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T07:49:30","slug":"uk-gets-new-prime-minister-as-liz-truss-officially-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/uk-gets-new-prime-minister-as-liz-truss-officially-takes-over\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Gets New Prime Minister As Liz Truss Officially Takes Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Liz Truss has formally assumed office as prime minister of the United Kingdom (UK).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She clinched the office on Monday, taking over from Boris Johnson, who had a not-too-enviable tenure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Truss became Britain\u2019s next prime minister after meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, who asked her to form a new government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 47-year-old took office yesterday in the carefully choreographed ceremony with the monarch a day after the ruling Conservative Party announced that Truss was elected as its leader.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe Queen received in Audience The Right Honourable Elizabeth Truss MP today and requested her to form a new Administration,\u201d a Buckingham Palace statement said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cMs Truss accepted Her Majesty\u2019s offer and kissed hands upon her appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury,\u201d it added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Truss was just 19 when she made her first major political appearance, calling for an end to the reign of the monarchy of the United Kingdom.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was at the 1994 party conference of the Liberal Democrats, and the teenager was speaking as president of the party\u2019s Oxford University student movement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Quoting former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, she said: \u201cEverybody in Britain should have the chance to be a somebody, but only one family can provide the Head of State.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe Liberal Democrats believe in opportunity for all, we believe in fairness and common sense.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe do not believe that people should be born to rule, or that they should put up and shut up about decisions which affect their everyday lives.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After the clip resurfaced in July this year, Ms Truss was asked when she realised that she did not want to abolish the monarchy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAlmost immediately after I\u2019d made that speech,\u201d she told reporters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI was a teenager at the time and I do believe that people who never change their mind on anything and think the same at 16 as they do at 46 are, well, first of all, they\u2019re not normal people like I am.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAnd second, I\u2019ve got the ability to learn from mistakes I\u2019ve made, things that I\u2019ve done that are wrong and move on.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Her predecessor, Boris Johnson, formally stepped down during his own audience with the Queen at her Balmoral estate in Scotland.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She will inherit the top job with the country facing a major cost of living crisis, lingering Brexit issues and a climate emergency. On the international front, she will have to navigate the ongoing war in Ukraine and Russian aggression.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Born Mary Elizabeth Truss in Oxford on July 26, 1975, the next UK leader had a very un-Conservative upbringing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Her father John was a university Maths professor and her mother Priscilla was a nurse, and both held strong liberal ideals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Both of them were involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the UK and would take their daughter to rallies calling for the Thatcher government to divest of its nuclear weapons, where a young Liz would chant \u201cMaggie, Maggie, Maggie! Out, Out, Out!\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI think it was fair to say that, when I was in my youth, I was a professional controversialist and I liked exploring ideas and stirring things up,\u201d she told the BBC earlier this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The family moved around due to John Truss\u2019s job \u2014 after Oxford came Paisley in Scotland, followed by a year in Canada, before the family settled in the Yorkshire city of Leeds, where the young Ms Truss completed high school at the comprehensive Roundhay School.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While her schooling led to a place at the prestigious Merton College at Oxford University, she has said she felt many of the children at her school were \u201clet down by low expectations, poor educational standards and a lack of opportunity.\u201d<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Truss has formally assumed office as prime minister of the United Kingdom (UK). 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