The new Conservative leader will take charge of the head of government this Tuesday to face the price crisis
The Conservative Party has chosen the current Secretary of State, Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Truss, as the new leader of the organisation. She will be confirmed as the new prime minister tomorrow, Tuesday, to replace Boris Johnson. The result of the vote of the party’s supporters has been favorable to Truss, leaving out Rishi Sunak, the two survivors of the first process of candidate elimination.
For the first time, the party’s supporters have voted for a candidate other than the group’s preference, which gave more votes to its rival, former finance minister Sunak, in the first stage of the election process. The accusation of disloyalty to Sunak after he resigned from Johnson’s cabinet at the start of the parliamentary group uprising has weighed heavily on party members.
Two months after Boris Johnson’s resignation on July 7, executive power is restored. Johnson will fly to Scotland next Tuesday to offer his resignation to Elizabeth II. The monarch’s mobility issues have prevented her from moving to the official residence, Buckingham Palace, in central London. For the first time in his administration, he will facilitate the change of head of government at his summer residence, the Balmoral mansion, near Aberdeen.
In another plane, Truss will follow Johnson on his way to isolated Balmoral, to present himself to the Queen as an MP capable of forming a government with a majority in the House of Commons. After confirmation, he returns to London, enters the official residence of the heads of government, at 10 Downing Street, and reads a letter of intent around 5 pm.
In August he had time to outline the cabinet. Johnson filled it with ‘Brexiters’ and let him have a majority of 71 seats in the House of Commons. About 200 MPs, out of 357 in the parliamentary group, have not supported Truss, who is less popular with Conservative members and voters than Johnson. The polls give Labor a ten-point lead on its intention to vote. General elections must be held before January 24, 2025.
It’s a complicated picture in partisan politics for Truss, who has headed six ministries in her eight years of experience led by David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson. It has a more divided parliamentary faction than before, an opposition that retains a significant advantage for the first time, and the lack of legitimacy that comes from being elected by a small number of voters to lead the government.
In the country’s politics, the election campaign was marked by the disagreement between a minister who favored changing her former colleague Sunak’s tax increases to avoid a recession, and the latter’s criticism of his rival for being plan, supposedly, the inflationary dynamics; or for jeopardizing the UK’s fiscal credibility, adding more debt to the debt accumulated during the pandemic.
The rise in the energy price, higher than that of all the economies of the European Union, with the exception of the three Baltic republics, broke out sharply in the last days of the campaign. Truss has been forced to promise government intervention after arguing early in the campaign that her fiscal easing is a better way to facilitate the management of family economies than subsidies. He’s now announcing a plan, but hasn’t revealed the contents yet.
That plan should make a good impression in a country that, as in Scotland, is used to the direct nuisance of strikes by public transport workers, criminal lawyers or garbage collection services. Strikes by officials, nurses, in education are planned… According to ‘The Times’, the police fear an increase in delinquency and disturbances.
As winter approaches and energy consumption increases, households will be hit by energy prices that are already causing serious financial hardship for small and medium-sized businesses. It is part of the price to pay for the war in Ukraine, in which the new government will maintain its strong support for Kiev. The population supports this commitment, but in recent years has been missing a sober and serious management of a complex crisis.
Source: La Verdad
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