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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.

Tribune News Service

Nigel Farage gin sparks Cornish controversy

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

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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

Belfast Live

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.

ABC News

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

Wales Online

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

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EU calls on Liz Truss to abide by Brexit deal

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

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.

Reuters

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.

The Independent UK

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…

France 24

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

Truss: Johnson ‘admired from Kyiv to Carlisle’

Incoming prime minister Liz Truss paid tribute to Boris Johnson after securing victory in the Tory leadership race.

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Liz Truss makes telling slip about Scotland and the Tories in victory speech

JUST when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Liz Truss is to be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom ...

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss's short, stilted first speech as Tory leader in full as she's named next PM

Liz Truss marked her victory as Tory leader by giving a 390-word speech lasting five minutes - with a few awkward gaps for applause. Here's what she said in full

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss rules out early election after winning Tory leadership by tightest margin on record

New Conservative leader uses victory speech at the Queen Elizabeth Centre to heap praise on outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson for delivering Brexit

The Conversation

Liz Truss: who is the UK's new prime minister and why has she replaced Boris Johnson?

The United Kingdom’s next prime minister will be Liz Truss. After a two-month contest, Conservative Party members have chosen her as their new leader. All that remains is for Truss to travel to Balmoral in Scotland where she will be formally invited by the Queen to form a government.

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The Guardian - UK

How Liz Truss became leader of the Conservative party – a timeline

The former Lib Dem will be named as the new UK prime minister after meeting the Queen

The Independent UK

Liz Truss policies: New prime minister’s campaign promises

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

Evening Standard

Congratulations to our new PM — and good luck with the in-tray from hell

Political leadership at the highest level is largely beyond the control of the leader. The long campaign, by which the members of the Conservative Party chose the new prime minister on behalf of all of us, came to its conclusion today. The campaign has been dominated by the least important…

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 Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson broke all the rules, but history may be kind to him yet

From Brexit to Covid, there were some gleams of light – but the PM’s belief he was above the law did for him in the end, says academic and author Vernon Bogdanor

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 Guardian - UK

Lessons by Ian McEwan review – this boy’s life

The novelist’s attempt to capture a man’s existence over eight decades of personal and global change makes you long for the more melodramatic turns of his other books

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