British Prime Minister Liz Truss took office less than two weeks ago, impatient to set her stamp on government. The epochal event has been both a challenge and a reprieve for the U.K.’s untested new leader. The monarch’s demise has put everyday politics in the U.K. on hold as the country plunged into an emotional mourning period. That would be highly contentious, and would abruptly end the political truce that has followed the queen’s death. “We’re beginning to see … the signs of what the new economics of Liz Truss is all about,” opposition Labour Party lawmaker Margaret Hodge told the BBC.

Source: The Herald September 17, 2022 14:36 UTC