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Truss received 50 votes on the first of Conservative MPs' 5 ballots, with the number of votes cast for her increasing in each; [194] on 20 July [195] Truss and Sunak were chosen by the parliamentary party to be put forward to the membership for the final leadership vote, with Truss receiving 113 votes to Sunak's 137. [196]
Campaign logo. Liz Truss launched her bid to succeed Boris Johnson on 10 July 2022. [7] During the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, Truss pledged to cut taxes by scrapping the National Insurance rise that had previously been announced in April 2022, scrapping the recent corporation tax rise and she also promised to remove green energy levies.
This is a summary of the electoral history of Liz Truss, the former Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk who served from 2010 to 2024. She also served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from September to October 2022, making her the shortest serving Prime Minister in history; Truss previously ...
Liz Truss, the shortest-serving British prime minister in history, was standing for re-election as MP. On 2 July, in anticipation of a large Labour victory in the general election, a national poll of voters by Portland Communications had shown that Truss was the Conservative politician most people (28%) wanted to see lose their seat. [1]
An 11 October column in The Economist titled "Liz Truss has made Britain a riskier bet for bond investors" stated that, after deducting the ten-day mourning period following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Truss had caused economic and political turmoil after just seven days in power, comparing that duration to the "shelf-life of a lettuce".
Liz Truss is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. The shortest-serving prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom, she has received attention for her political positions, most notably economics.
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