Liz Truss Prime Minister
Discussion
El stovey said:
It's like going round a roundabout
768 said:
Rivenink said:
4th Tory Prime Minister in 12 years.
Her 3 predecessors are considered some of the worst to have held the office. Can she do any better? We'll see, I guess.
Recency bias says no, again, even without it being the pork markets lady.Her 3 predecessors are considered some of the worst to have held the office. Can she do any better? We'll see, I guess.
Al Gorithum said:
Oh good. 80k people (who think that Boris did a great job) has decided who is PM for the next 2 years.
She is an imbecile.
Do tell us about your stellar achievements ? She is an imbecile.
Truss attended Merton College, Oxford, and was President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats. In 1996, she both graduated and joined the Conservative Party. She worked at Shell and Cable & Wireless, and was deputy director of the think tank Reform. Truss was elected for South West Norfolk at the 2010 general election. As a backbencher, she called for reform in several policy areas including childcare, mathematics education and the economy. She founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs and wrote or co-wrote a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012).
Truss served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Childcare and Education from 2012 to 2014, before being appointed to the Cabinet by Cameron as Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the 2014 cabinet reshuffle. Though she was a supporter of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign for the UK to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, she supported Brexit after the result. After Cameron resigned in July 2016, Truss was appointed Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor by May, becoming the first female Lord Chancellor in the thousand-year history of the office. Following the 2017 general election, Truss was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury. After May resigned in 2019, Truss supported Johnson's bid to become Conservative leader. He appointed Truss as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. She took on the additional role of Minister for Women and Equalities in September 2019. She moved from the Department for International Trade to be promoted to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in the 2021 cabinet reshuffle. She was appointed the Government's chief negotiator with the European Union and UK chair of the EU–UK Partnership Council in December 2021.
eharding said:
She's going to have to put some serious effort in to be worse than Boris. She'd have to go out first thing every morning between now and the election and punch a random little old lady in the face as hard as she could to come anywhere close as being as bad as Johnson.
I give it about 5 minutes before some start demanding she goes and we spin the wheel again. 
rjfp1962 said:
Liz 57.4% of the vote.. Boris got 66.4% when he one the job..
I was wondering what the distribution was. BBC News said:
About 57% of valid votes cast were for Liz Truss. Turnout was pretty high too, with 82.6% of members casting a vote, with 654 rejected, possibly spoiled or filled out incorrectly.
Liz Truss......81326
Rishi Sunak 60399
Rejected..........654
So she's got to reunite her own party, as well as the country post Brexit, Boris and the Bug, and solve the cost of living crisis and and and. I don't fancy her chances at all.
To be fair, I don't think you need necessarily have been any good in any of those roles - just not utter crap (although that may be debatable).
You do, however, have to be willing to say 'yes' when you feel like saying no and be a sycophant to any other leader of your party. Even if they have the morals of a particularly immoral individual.
You do, however, have to be willing to say 'yes' when you feel like saying no and be a sycophant to any other leader of your party. Even if they have the morals of a particularly immoral individual.
Gargamel said:
Al Gorithum said:
Oh good. 80k people (who think that Boris did a great job) has decided who is PM for the next 2 years.
She is an imbecile.
Do tell us about your stellar achievements ? She is an imbecile.
Truss attended Merton College, Oxford, and was President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats. In 1996, she both graduated and joined the Conservative Party. She worked at Shell and Cable & Wireless, and was deputy director of the think tank Reform. Truss was elected for South West Norfolk at the 2010 general election. As a backbencher, she called for reform in several policy areas including childcare, mathematics education and the economy. She founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs and wrote or co-wrote a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012).
Truss served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Childcare and Education from 2012 to 2014, before being appointed to the Cabinet by Cameron as Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the 2014 cabinet reshuffle. Though she was a supporter of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign for the UK to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, she supported Brexit after the result. After Cameron resigned in July 2016, Truss was appointed Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor by May, becoming the first female Lord Chancellor in the thousand-year history of the office. Following the 2017 general election, Truss was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury. After May resigned in 2019, Truss supported Johnson's bid to become Conservative leader. He appointed Truss as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. She took on the additional role of Minister for Women and Equalities in September 2019. She moved from the Department for International Trade to be promoted to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in the 2021 cabinet reshuffle. She was appointed the Government's chief negotiator with the European Union and UK chair of the EU–UK Partnership Council in December 2021.
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