The unprecedented way Liz Truss will be appointed UK’s prime minister today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
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UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will be appointed as Britain’s new prime minister by Queen Elizabeth in an unorthodox location. In The Daily Article for September 6, 2022, Jim Denison, PhD, considers “the finitude of the human condition” and the sin of presumption that Christians are often tempted to commit.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, September 6th, 2022. |
| 0:08.4 | Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:14.3 | UK Foreign Secretary Liz Trust is Britain's new prime minister. |
| 0:18.8 | She will formally replace Boris Johnson today when she's appointed to her office by Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 0:25.3 | The Queen has appointed all 14 of her previous Prime Ministers at Buckingham Palace in London. |
| 0:31.2 | However, the 96-year-old monarch is staying at her holiday home in Scotland between August and October. |
| 0:38.0 | To keep her from having to travel, the new prime minister will travel to her for a ceremony |
| 0:42.4 | unlike any other in the Queen's 70-year reign. |
| 0:45.9 | British prime ministers lead the political party that gains enough elected seats in Parliament |
| 0:50.3 | to form a ruling coalition. |
| 0:52.5 | If their party no longer supports their leadership, |
| 0:55.2 | as happened with Boris Johnson, they can be forced to resign. Or if a general election replaces |
| 1:01.1 | their party, as happened with Winston Churchill in 1945, they're replaced as well. In other words, |
| 1:07.4 | the new prime minister will only be prime minister so long as her party supports |
| 1:11.9 | her and her party wins the next general election, which must be held no later than 2025. |
| 1:18.0 | Great Britain's elective system and advanced age of her queen both illustrate the finitude |
| 1:22.9 | of human condition. |
| 1:24.7 | Here's another example. |
| 1:26.2 | Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was buried in Moscow |
| 1:30.0 | last Saturday. According to the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin did not attend the funeral |
| 1:35.4 | because he was too busy. What Mr. Putin may not realize is that one day the funeral will be his. |
| 1:42.3 | He is 69 years old. |
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