Tag: Liz Truss

• Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Liz Truss after long term gas provision deals with Norway and Qatar

  

  The new government of Liz Truss is focusing in long-term gas deals with Norway, Qatar and other countries, as energy supply has become the priority of the United Kingdom and ensuring heating and lights this winter.

• Monday, October 3rd 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Tory MPs furious with Liz Truss mini-budget: she's playing into the hands of Labour

  

  The shockwaves from the mini-budget presented by Prime Minister Liz Truss and her Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng are still reverberating in the markets and politically more damaging, among members of the ruling Conservative party.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng play, “Britannia Unhinged”

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – “The Queen’s final act of service to the nation was to selflessly buy the economy one last fortnight,” said one tweet when all four wheels finally came off the British economy.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 18:56 UTC

  Wallace praises Truss as UK ups military spending

  

  UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has announced that the government of Prime Minister Liz Truss intends to increase military spending up to to 3% of the country's Gross Domestic Product, per the Conservative leader's campaign promises, it was reported.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Truss meets Biden in New York; talks focus on the Good Friday Agreement and peace in Northern Ireland

  

  United Kingdom prime minister Liz Truss and US president Joe Biden held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the United Nations annual Assembly with special emphasis on the Good Friday Agreement that helped to end decades of conflict in Northern Ireland.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Truss announces new cabinet to face “the storm”

  

  Britain's newly-appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss Tuesday vowed to weather the “the storm” the country is going through and appointed her new cabinet for that task.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2022 - 23:02 UTC

  Next British Prime Minister strong supporter of the Falklands

  

  On Monday 5 September 2022, it was announced that the Rt Hon Liz Truss MP had been elected the new leader of the Conservative Party, following the resignation of Boris Johnson MP and subsequent leadership election.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 23:13 UTC

  Tories pick Liz Truss to become UK's next PM

  

  Foreign Secretary Liz Truss beat former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes to 60,399 and will thus become the British Conservative Party's New Leader who is to be appointed Prime Minister Tuesday by Queen Elizabeth II in Balmoral Castle.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Liz Truss, if PM, looking at “nuclear” option of cutting VAT 5% across the board, media reports

  

  Tory leader candidate and good chances of becoming the next British prime minister, Liz Truss would prioritize tax cuts over giving direct payments to every household to help cover the cost of rising energy bills. Reports suggest Ms Truss is considering cutting VAT across the board by 5%.

• Saturday, August 27th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Liz Truss and Macron exchange “flowers” on UK/French relations

  

  French president Emmanuel Macron, on a visit to Algeria, took time to comment on remarks from the most serious candidate to become the next British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, and said he would not “for a second” hesitate to say “the United Kingdom is a friend of France,” despite its leaders or minor mistakes.