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A good while ago, when I was young and naive and believed I could crank out what amounted to a high-school term paper every other day, I mentioned the scandal centered around British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Old Boris was telling the public to stay indoors, wear masks, and practice social distancing, while breaking those very rules himself (per allegations) by throwing parties. The political backlash was fierce, culminating in a “Vote of No Confidence,” which amounts to a US presidential impeachment trial. He survived the vote, but a surprising amount of Johnson’s own party voted against him.
Well, Johnson finally buckled to pressure, and resigned in July. And now, Liz Truss has been chosen by the Conservative Party as the new prime minister of the United Kingdom. She will be the third UK prime minister; the first was political firebrand Margaret Thatcher, who Truss has often been compared to.
Truss will have to face a motley of problems right off the bat; including, according to the New York Times, “double-digit inflation, a looming recession, labor unrest, soaring household energy bills and possible fuel shortages this winter [due to the Ukraine crisis].” She has already been proactive in her new role, beginning to finalize a plan that would lower energy bills and hopefully inflation - and it’s practically her first day.
She’s definitely got her job cut out for her.
An unenviable job ever I heard of one.