What it means, what to know

• Liz Truss is Britain’s third prime minister in three years
• Truss received 57% of votes from 172,000 Conservative Social gathering activists – lower than 1% of UK inhabitants
• Truss replaces Boris Johnson, who leaves workplace Tuesday

LONDON – Liz Truss will turn into Britain’s third feminine prime minister after Monday’s announcement by the ruling Conservative Social gathering that she would exchange Boris Johnson.

Truss, 47, has portrayed herself because the political inheritor to Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s formidable cheerleader at no cost markets and low taxes, a powerful supporter of the Anglo-American alliance and a dynamo who performed a key position in ending the Chilly Warfare. Johnson, an architect of Britain’s exit from the European Union (often called Brexit), held the position for simply over three years earlier than resigning amid scandals over breaking his personal coronavirus lockdown guidelines.