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New PM: How Johnson loyalist Liz Truss bagged the top job in British politics

She is only the third woman in history to become British prime minister, following in the footsteps of her Conservative predecessors Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May. Who is 47-year-old Liz Truss and how did she manage to overtake her rival Rishi Sunak in the race to succeed Boris Johnson? FRANCE…

France 24

Liz Truss finishes extraordinary political transformation to become next Tory PM

Having opposed Brexit in the 2016 referendum, and even advocated anti-monarchist views as a Liberal Democrat, Liz Truss is now Conservative leader.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss will be fourth UK prime minister in six years

Turnover of prime ministers has sped up in recent decades.

The Independent UK

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Liz Truss named next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Truss has been named the new leader of the Conservative Party

Wales Online

Where does Boris Johnson stand in the pantheon of modern British prime ministers?

He’s clearly not in the Churchill or Thatcher first class, and his personal flaws and precipitate fall from power means he’s demoted below the likes of Blair and Wilson in the second division. However, Brexit and his election success put him above May and Cameron, writes Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson scolded by staff for 'sharing Queen's brutally honest comment from meeting'

The Queen will meet her 15th Prime Minister this week as Boris Johnson says goodbye to Number 10 - and aides will be hoping Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak's first meeting goes more smoothly than the outgoing leader's

Daily Mirror

UK to learn who will succeed Boris Johnson as PM

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak will be announced the new leader of the United Kingdom.

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Liz Truss: Who will be in Tory frontrunner’s cabinet as she prepares to replace Boris Johnson?

Firm favourite to become PM has been busy drawing up her top team ahead of expected coronation

The Independent UK

Liz Truss as Prime Minister will be the wrong right turn for Britain

Record View writes Scots must brace themselves today for the most avowedly right-wing prime minister since Margaret Thatcher.

Daily Record

The most controversial PM since Lloyd George: historians on Boris Johnson

In the pantheon of UK premiers, Johnson must claim his place as among the most scandalous, say experts

The Guardian - UK

Jaime Winstone 'honoured' to reprise role as Peggy Mitchell in special EastEnders episode

Jaime Winstone will step into the late Dame Barbara Windsor's shoes once more to play Peggy Mitchell in a special flashback episode of EastEnders next week

Daily Mirror

Where does Boris Johnson stand in the pantheon of modern British prime ministers?

The Independent UK

Direct action is stirring the popular imagination. It might also reshape leftwing politics

Surging support for Enough is Enough, Don’t Pay and others could force Labour to harden its stance

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss: Who is the UK’s new prime minister?

‘Human hand grenade’, seen by many Tories as Johnson continuity figure, confirmed as his successor after leading Rishi Sunak throughout leadership race

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The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on Mikhail Gorbachev: he drew a line under a wretched past but failed to usher in a brighter future

Hailed a hero by the west for banishing Stalin’s legacy and ending the cold war, he was ultimately reviled at home

The Guardian - UK

The rise and rise of Liz Truss: 10 key moments in her journey from Lib Dem to likely Tory PM

Ascent to power took in spat with the Turnip Taliban, a late conversion to Brexit and a gallery of photos mimicking Thatcher

The Independent UK

The foreign secretary has been accused of cosplaying Margaret Thatcher - but how similar to the Iron Lady is she really?

The Independent UK

Tory MPs warn Liz Truss ‘don’t lurch to the right’ amid fears of ‘Thatcher tribute government’

Former minister suspects Tory leadership frontrunner will be ‘right-wing and hard Brexit’ if elected leader on Monday

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The Independent UK

Where does Boris Johnson stand in the pantheon of modern British prime ministers?

The Independent UK

Liz Truss: Who is the foreign secretary hoping to become prime minister?

‘Human hand grenade’ seen by Tories as Johnson continuity candidate and ahead of Rishi Sunak throughout the race thanks to questionable tax promises and neo-Thatcherite branding

The Independent UK

More than half of voters expect Liz Truss to be poor or terrible PM, poll finds

Leadership frontrunner rated worse than every PM in 40 years except Boris Johnson

Daily Mirror

Mikhail Gorbachev's unlikely friendship with Margaret Thatcher after cracking joke

Mikhail Gorbachev recalled how he assured Thatcher he had no instructions from the Politburo to try to persuade her to join the Soviet Union’s Communist Party – which caused her to burst out laughing

The Guardian - AU

Tory leadership race: who will be the UK’s next PM?

The election by Conservative members will decide if Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will replace Boris Johnson as party leader and Britain’s next prime minister

The Independent UK

Hundreds of TV and film producers urge new PM to abandon privatisation of Channel 4

Abandoning move would ‘honour Margaret Thatcher’s legacy’, letter says

Reuters

Britain's new PM faces an 80s playlist: recession, unrest and runaway prices

Britain's prime minister in waiting Liz Truss models herself on Margaret Thatcher, judging by her photo ops echoing famous images of the country's first female premier.

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