The One Who Adheres to Tradition On Tuesday, September 6, Liz Truss, Britain’s 56th prime minister and the third woman to hold the office, met with Queen Elizabeth II for the first time as part of the normal royal etiquette.
She is the third woman to hold the role.
The monarch, who is 96 years old and has a history of health problems, insisted that the event take place in Balmoral Castle in Scotland rather than in Buckingham Palace in London.
Boris Johnson had gone to the queen’s summer home just minutes before in order to hand in his resignation, which was all part of a well-orchestrated transfer of power that was taking place.
After returning to London, Ms. Truss followed tradition and gave her first speech as prime minister in front of 10 Downing Street, even though two storms were occurring at the same time.
She reaffirmed her promise to implement “bold” reforms and lower taxestoo foster economic expansion, and she went on to say, “I am certain that together we can ride out the storm, rebuild our economy, and become the contemporary brilliant Britain that I know we can be.”
The economic situation is extremely precarious for the prime minister, as it is quite possible that the United Kingdom is already in a recession and millions of people in the United Kingdom will soon be unable to afford the rapidly rising cost of electricity.
All ties to the previous leader, Rishi Sunak, have been broken, and there has been a flurry of personnel shuffles in the inner circle of the new prime minister.
The new cabinet
- Liz Truss, prime minister
- Thérèse Coffey, deputy prime minister and health and social care secretary
- Kwasi Kwarteng, chancellor of the exchequer
- James Cleverly, foreign secretary
- Suella Braverman, home secretary
- Ben Wallace, defence secretary
- Brandon Lewis, justice secretary and lord chancellor
- Nadhim Zahawi, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, minister for intergovernmental relations and minister for equalities
- Penny Mordaunt, leader of the House of Commons and lord president of the council
- Lord True, Lord privy seal and leader of the House of Lords
- Jake Berry, minister without portfolio and Conservative party chairman
- Alok Sharma, Cop26 president
- Jacob Rees-Mogg, business, energy and industrial strategy secretary
- Simon Clarke, levelling up, housing and communities secretary
- Kemi Badenoch, international trade secretary and president of the board of trade
- Chloe Smith, work and pensions secretary
- Kit Malthouse, education secretary
- Ranil Jayawardena, environment secretary
- Anne-Marie Trevelyan, transport secretary
- Michelle Donelan, culture secretary
- Chris Heaton-Harris, Northern Ireland secretary
- Alister Jack, Scotland secretary
- Robert Buckland, Wales secretary
