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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

How Will Liz Truss Govern a Britain in Crisis?

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liz Truss became the United Kingdom’s newest Prime Minister. She comes into office following a string of scandals in the Conservative Party under her predecessor, Boris Johnson, and faces a nation in the midst of a bleak economic forecast, including talk of a recession. Although she has proven popular with her party’s most loyal members, that doesn’t insure success with the wider British public. Sam Knight joined the guest host Susan B. Glasser on Wednesday—before Queen Elizabeth II passed, intensifying the mood of alarm in the United Kingdom—to discuss Johnson’s legacy, Truss’s political style, and how she might address the state of the economy.

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Welcome to the political scene. I'm Susan Glasser. This week, Liz Truss became the United

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Kingdom's newest prime minister. Trust comes into office following a string of scandals in the

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Conservative Party under her predecessor, Boris Johnson, an inheritance in the midst of a

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bleak economic forecast, including talk of recession and a crisis in energy prices. And while she has

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proven popular with the Conservative Party's most loyal members, that certainly does not ensure

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success for the new Prime Minister with the wider British public.

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I'm joined today by my colleague Sam Knight, who is based in London for the New Yorker and has been

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closely following the latest tumult in British politics. Sam, thank you so much for joining me

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today. Thank you for having me, Susan. It's real pleasure. Well, I'm delighted in part because I think,

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you know, here we are in the United States wondering what to think. It really seems like Britain is in a

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