What to expect from new UK PM Liz Truss

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Britain has its fourth prime minister in six years, after Liz Truss visited Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland for the royal handshake, a formality that propelled her to head of government, and to become the third female prime minister of the country. Thus ends the Boris Johnson era, signified by high drama, a litany of scandals, and a country in deep crisis. The challenges facing Prime Minister Truss are monumental, with high inflation and soaring energy bills. To discuss her daunting in-tray and the UK’s future on the international stage, Christiane speaks with Labour member of the House of Lords Valerie Amos and Britain’s former man in Washington Peter Westmacott. Also on today's show: International Atomic Energy Agency Director Rafael Grossi; Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. Meet the
0:10.5	new British Prime Minister. Will she save the day amid an economic crisis
0:14.8	and a war in Europe or drive the special relationship
0:18.0	with America into a brick wall?
0:20.4	Labor Pierre Valerie Amos and former British ambassador to the US to Peter West Macott join me.
0:26.0	Plus, we believe and I continue to believe that the situation is extremely complex, extremely challenging.
0:32.0	As fighting continues around Europe's... complex, extremely challenging.
0:32.8	As fighting continues around Europe's largest nuclear plant in Ukraine,
0:37.6	I ask the UN nuclear watchdog chief Raphael Grocy about the risks.
0:42.3	I know just how threatened my residents are on an ongoing basis.
0:47.0	A city without safe water.
0:50.0	Michelle Martin talks to Chokway Antar Lamumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi,
0:55.0	about averting the program everyone. I'm Christian Ammanpur in London and Britain
1:16.2	has its fourth Prime Minister in six years prompting one prominent observer to say
1:21.2	that it now looks a lot more like dysfunctional Italy than an
1:25.0	important observer to say that it now looks a lot more like dysfunctional Italy than solid deplendable blighty.
1:27.0	List Trust visited Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral Castle in Scotland for the Royal Handshake,
1:32.0	a formality that propels her to the head of
1:34.4	government and to becoming the third female Prime Minister of this country.
1:38.9	And thus ends the Boris Johnson era, signified by high drama, a litany of scandals, and a country in deep crisis.
1:46.5	Outside Downing Street today, Truss promised to cut taxes and to unveil her energy plan this week.
1:53.0	She also addressed Russia's war on Ukraine.
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