Roundtable on the Truss Premiership
When:
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Venue:
Online
Barring a political earthquake, Liz Truss will become Prime Minister on 5 September 2022, the third women in history to occupy the country’s highest political office and the UK’s ninth ‘takeover leader’ since the Second World War. Truss inherits a Parliamentary Conservative Party which remains scarred by Brexit and divided over how to handle the cost-of-living crisis and worsening outlook for economic growth.
International challenges, including the war in Ukraine, require close cooperation between the UK and European partners, but Truss enters Downing Street with a reputation as a divisive figure who plays to the domestic gallery. And yet, throughout her political career, Truss has beaten expectations and changed her policy positions.
In this roundtable, members of the Department of Politics at Birkbeck discuss what to expect from Liz Truss’s premiership, as a general election and perhaps even further leadership challenges loom on the political horizon.
Contact name:
Ben Worthy