So it’s goodbye to Boris Johnson, and Britons have their fourth prime minister in six years, in Liz Truss. She is Britain’s third female leader, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May.
The new PM will have to deal with inflation, Ukraine, energy security with winter approaching, the NHS, the contrails of Brexit and a general election that isn’t too far away.
Liz Truss is announced as the new Conservative Party (‘Tory’) leader and Prime Minister, after Boris Johnson had been ousted by his own Conservative Party in July. In Britain, prime ministers are not directly elected by the public. General elections work more like congressional elections in the United States: the public votes for local representatives to send to the U.K.’s legislature, the parliament. The leader of the party that wins the most seats in the parliament generally becomes the prime minister. [Still from BBC video clip]
