The woman replacing Boris Johnson at No. 10 Downing Street has vowed to slash taxes and remove decades of European regulations from Britain's books.
— Liz Truss officially became Britain's new prime minister on Tuesday after Boris Johnson formally resigned to Queen Elizabeth II at her home in Balmoral, Scotland, and the monarch accepted Truss as the, inviting her to form a government. The process was largely a formality, to make official the results of an internal power struggle in one of Britain's main political parties. Johnson's three-year tenure was peppered with scandals, which eventually resulted in his ouster.
As one of her first moves in office, Truss is expected to announce an energy price cap, which would limit the amount people have to pay to heat their homes over the winter, but would cost the government £100 billion . That, on top of the huge amount of public debt already incurred under Johnson's government to get Britons through the coronavirus pandemic.
Truss was chosen as the new Conservative Party leader by the roughly 170,000 registered voting members of the party, through an internal election process sparked by Johnson's resignation. In one clip from a 2014 speech about British foodstuffs that went viral, she railed against imported cheese.
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