Newly selected UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has formed ‘the most right-wing cabinet for a generation’

The 56th and third female UK Prime Minister takes up the reins of power as the UK toils under spiraling levels of inflation, skyrocketing energy costs with an economy almost certainly in recession, and public services on the brink of collapse.

It's been dubbed the most right wing cabinet for a generation formed after the new PM, Liz Truss' fulsome support for her predecessor and a purge of defeated rival Rishi Sunak loyalists.

Some of the familiar faces include Kwasi Kwarteng, a free marketeer and ideological soul mate to Liz Truss, confirmed as Chancellor.

UK new PM forms ‘the most right-wing for a generation’

After a sweeping reshuffle, the UK’s new prime minister has announced her cabinet. Around the top-table are many of her key supporters with senior roles going to loyalists and allies. Absent from her government so far, loyalists of her rival, former chancellor Rishi Sunak.

Ex-leadership candidate, Suella Braverman, admired by the right wing for "attacks on woke politics", appointed Home Secretary.

Staunch Truss ally, James Cleverly, promoted to Foreign Minister; on his in-tray, Ukraine and fixing relations with the EU strain after Brexit, among other things.

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Liz Truss will be coming to Down Street facing a myriad of domestic and foreign challenges, chief among them a toxic economic situation recently made worse by soaring food and energy prices.

Close friend, Thérèse Anne Coffey, will be deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary. The National Health Service is undergoing a staff and cash crisis.

Ben Wallace, the man who called the Russian president a lunatic, will keep his job as Defence Minister.

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More than a quarter of people in the UK believe the new Prime Minister Liz Truss will be worse than her predecessor Boris Johnson, according to a new poll.

And another carryover from the Johnson administration, Jacob Rees-Mogg, a man who blamed the energy crisis in the UK on climate alarmists, will be Business and Energy Secretary.

What we therefore have is a very clearly defined agenda with Liz Truss surrounding herself by people she thinks will be loyal to her, and will share some quite central policy objectives, which I'd suggest are sharper than those of her predecessor.

Lembit Opik, Former British MP

The makeup of the Truss team goes against her pledge to use what she called “all the fantastic talents of the Conservative Party".

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Liz Truss won less than 60% of the Conservative Party membership vote, and when she threw her hat in the ring for party leadership, she won less than a third of the Conservative MPs votes.

That means that she could have done herself a favor by trying to appeal to as wide a base of parliamentary support as possible. Especially because she will need her party's support for her plans for her three priorities, the economy, energy and the NHS.

Queen Elizabeth appoints Liz Truss as Britain's prime minister

The British monarch appoints Liz Truss as the new prime minister a day after the Conservative Party picked her as their leader.

So they might grumble in private, but they'll show the impression of unity in public. The biggest issue though for her is that if she does controversial things in legislative terms, which MPs think aren't going to work, then she could have problems.

Lembit Opik, Former British MP

The 56th UK Prime Minister takes up the reins of power as the UK toils under spiraling levels of inflation, skyrocketing energy costs and an economy almost certainly in recession, and public services on the brink of collapse.

UK’s Johnson in farewell speech pledges support for Truss at 'tough time'

The outgoing British prime minister Boris Johnson delivered his farewell speech on Tuesday, highlighting his government’s record on Brexit, Ukraine and COVID-19, and pledging support for his successor during a "tough time"

It remains to be seen whether the newly minted Prime Minister, another delusions-of-Thatcher Prime Minister, and her cabinet can deliver on her promises.

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