Liz Truss
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UK’s PM Truss quits, Tories vow new leader next week
Oct 21, 2022The shortest-serving prime minister in UK history, British Prime Minister Liz Truss, announced her resignation on Thursday, just six crisis-filled weeks after taking office. In order to prevent the drawn-out election that Truss won over Rishi... -
The pound rose against the dollar on the news of British PM Liz Truss’s resignation
Oct 20, 2022The pound rose against the dollar on the news of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s resignation, before shedding some of the gains. Sterling touched $1.13 at one point before slipping back. UK government borrowing costs had been... -
British PM Liz Truss resigns
Oct 20, 2022Liz Truss has dramatically resigned as prime minister after just 45 days in the job. The PM said her successor will be elected in a Tory leadership contest, to be completed in the next week. Tory... -
UK’s Truss struggles to salvage premiership
Oct 16, 2022After a stressful week of strategizing by Conservative opponents, British Prime Minister Liz Truss maintained on her commitment to “sound” economics as she prepared for Sunday’s crisis discussions with her all-powerful new finance minister. Truss said... -
Politics return as UK’s new PM visits the UN for the first time
Sep 20, 2022Liz Truss, the next prime minister of Britain, flew to make her debut at the UN General Assembly just hours after giving a somber reading at Queen Elizabeth II’s burial on Monday. This week, Boris Johnson’s... -
UK PM rules out windfall tax to fund energy price freeze
Sep 7, 2022In response to questions from lawmakers on Wednesday, Liz Truss, the British prime minister, said she would not impose a windfall tax to pay for any energy bill freeze intended to counteract sharp increases in the... -
Liz Truss to be next UK PM after winning party vote
Sep 5, 2022Following her victory in the internal leadership election of the governing Conservative party, Liz Truss was named the next prime minister of the United Kingdom on Monday. After a summer-long internal campaign prompted by Boris Johnson’s...