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'''Liz Truss''', sometimes referred to as '''Ms. Trust''', served as [[UK]] foreign minister since 2021. Truss is a member of the [[Tory]] Party and polls have Truss favored to replace [[Boris Johnson]] as the UK Prime Minister.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-liz-truss-maintains-big-lead-leadership-contest-poll-2022-08-18/ UK's Liz Truss maintains big lead in leadership contest - poll]</ref> | '''Liz Truss''', sometimes referred to as '''Ms. Trust''', served as [[UK]] foreign minister since 2021. Truss is a member of the [[Tory]] Party and polls have Truss favored to replace [[Boris Johnson]] as the UK Prime Minister.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-liz-truss-maintains-big-lead-leadership-contest-poll-2022-08-18/ UK's Liz Truss maintains big lead in leadership contest - poll]</ref> | ||
| − | + | Truss indicates that she has great admiration for the [[conservative]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] and her policies.<ref>[https://archive.ph/qXhNv How similar is Liz Truss to Margaret Thatcher?], ''The Independent'', 2022</ref> [[Nigel Farage]] has indicated that he will give Liz Truss a chance, but he is skeptical given recent Tory Party Prime Ministers who promised to govern as a conservative, but governed as [[social democrat]]s.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1sgAugAyXU Farage reacts to Liz Truss win]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRDkxhiZpBs Nigel Farage reacts to Liz Truss becoming Conservative Party leader]</ref> Truss has often been called a "political chameleon".<ref>[https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/06/britain-liz-truss-prime-minister-boris-johnson-economy-foreign-policy/ Liz Truss Takes the Reins], Foreign Policy, 2022</ref><ref>[https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/09/05/britains-new-leader-faces-a-historic-economic-storm-how-will-liz-truss-respond/ Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss faces some big challenges: Brexit, Ukraine, and a rising cost of living]</ref> | |
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| + | Truss has promised to cut taxes and increase the UK's energy supply (The UK has domestic energy sources that it can tap into such as gas and coal).<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britains-truss-expected-be-named-conservative-leader-new-pm-2022-09-05/ Liz Truss vows tax cuts after winning vote to be next British prime minister], Reuters</ref> | ||
Truss was caught on audio tape indicating that British workers lacked the "skill and application" of foreign nationals.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62571016 Liz Truss accused of branding British workers lazy in leaked audio], BBC</ref> ''The Economist'' indicates that [[Britain]]’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse.<ref>[https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/06/09/britains-productivity-problem-is-long-standing-and-getting-worse Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse], ''The Economist'', 2022</ref> Asked on how pressing the button to launch nuclear missiles would make her feel, she replied, "“I think it’s an important duty of the prime minister and I’m ready to do it. I’m ready to do that.”<ref>[Liz Truss Says She's 'Ready' To Press Nuclear Button And Alarm Bells Are Ringing], 2022</ref> | Truss was caught on audio tape indicating that British workers lacked the "skill and application" of foreign nationals.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62571016 Liz Truss accused of branding British workers lazy in leaked audio], BBC</ref> ''The Economist'' indicates that [[Britain]]’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse.<ref>[https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/06/09/britains-productivity-problem-is-long-standing-and-getting-worse Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse], ''The Economist'', 2022</ref> Asked on how pressing the button to launch nuclear missiles would make her feel, she replied, "“I think it’s an important duty of the prime minister and I’m ready to do it. I’m ready to do that.”<ref>[Liz Truss Says She's 'Ready' To Press Nuclear Button And Alarm Bells Are Ringing], 2022</ref> | ||
Revision as of 13:21, September 6, 2022
| Liz Truss | |
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| 78th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
| Term of office September 5, 2022 - | |
| Political party | Tory |
| Preceded by | Boris Johnson |
Liz Truss, sometimes referred to as Ms. Trust, served as UK foreign minister since 2021. Truss is a member of the Tory Party and polls have Truss favored to replace Boris Johnson as the UK Prime Minister.[1]
Truss indicates that she has great admiration for the conservative Margaret Thatcher and her policies.[2] Nigel Farage has indicated that he will give Liz Truss a chance, but he is skeptical given recent Tory Party Prime Ministers who promised to govern as a conservative, but governed as social democrats.[3][4] Truss has often been called a "political chameleon".[5][6]
Truss has promised to cut taxes and increase the UK's energy supply (The UK has domestic energy sources that it can tap into such as gas and coal).[7]
Truss was caught on audio tape indicating that British workers lacked the "skill and application" of foreign nationals.[8] The Economist indicates that Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse.[9] Asked on how pressing the button to launch nuclear missiles would make her feel, she replied, "“I think it’s an important duty of the prime minister and I’m ready to do it. I’m ready to do that.”[10]
"Since she was first elected as an MP in 2010, Ms Truss has either taken a pro-abortion position on votes or abstained. She has never taken a pro-life position on a vote."[11]
Russia-Ukraine war
- See also: Russia-Ukraine war
During the Donbas war crisis of 2022, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov asked Truss whether London recognizes Moscow’s sovereignty over the regions of Rostov and Voronezh. Truss replied that the UK “will never recognize Russia’s sovereignty over these regions.” British Ambassador to Russia Deborah Bronnert had to intervene and remind the Foreign Secretary that these two regions are actually considered Russian territory even by the United Kingdom and in fact those regions have been part of Russia for over 1,000 years.[12]
Foreign mercenary fighters are not protected by the Geneva Convention. When captured in a war zone, under martial law, they can be executed on the spot without trial. Under international law, they are criminals who kill people for profit. Nonetheless, these facts did not inhibit Truss, in the Russophobic hysteria gripping Western media, from actively encouraging young men across the planet to go get themselves killed, with no support from their own government,[13] and without informing these young fighters of any facts, if she indeed understood any facts that in an ordinary and sane world her job would require.[14] British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had to spend the next two months walking back her suggestion to UK citizens to violate both British and international law.[15]
British citizens who followed Truss's advice received the death penalty under international laws and norms.
References
- ↑ UK's Liz Truss maintains big lead in leadership contest - poll
- ↑ How similar is Liz Truss to Margaret Thatcher?, The Independent, 2022
- ↑ Farage reacts to Liz Truss win
- ↑ Nigel Farage reacts to Liz Truss becoming Conservative Party leader
- ↑ Liz Truss Takes the Reins, Foreign Policy, 2022
- ↑ Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss faces some big challenges: Brexit, Ukraine, and a rising cost of living
- ↑ Liz Truss vows tax cuts after winning vote to be next British prime minister, Reuters
- ↑ Liz Truss accused of branding British workers lazy in leaked audio, BBC
- ↑ Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse, The Economist, 2022
- ↑ [Liz Truss Says She's 'Ready' To Press Nuclear Button And Alarm Bells Are Ringing], 2022
- ↑ https://righttolife.org.uk/news/where-does-the-uks-new-prime-minister-liz-truss-stand
- ↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-warns-world-war-whils-truss-says-rostov-and-voronezh-are-not-russian
- ↑ https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/liz-truss-british-fight-ukraine-russia-b984892.html
- ↑ https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/iain-dale/liz-truss-green-light-for-brits-to-fight-in-ukraine-actually-illegal-david-davis/
- ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/prime-minister-boris-johnson-liz-truss-uk-government-ukraine-b2025893.html