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As Truss enters Downing Street, her foreign policy will soon come to the fore

All eyes are on how she will maintain the UK’s traditionally strong links with Asean

Lee U-Wen

Lee U-Wen

Published Tue, Sep 6, 2022 · 05:50 AM
    • Liz Truss is due to fly to New York later this month to address the UN general assembly, and will also travel to Bali in November for meetings with her G20 counterparts.
    • Liz Truss is due to fly to New York later this month to address the UN general assembly, and will also travel to Bali in November for meetings with her G20 counterparts. PHOTO: REUTERS

    SIXTY-ONE days after Boris Johnson stunned the UK and the rest of the world by resigning in the wake of a mutiny within his own party that had spiralled out of control, Britain has a new leader at last in the form of Liz Truss. The 47-year-old Foreign Secretary – whose full name is Mary Elizabeth Truss – will become the newest occupant of 10 Downing Street on Tuesday (Sep 6), a day after she was formally announced as the next leader of the governing Conservative Party, and the next prime minister.

    She won an internal leadership contest by pulling in 57.4 per cent of the votes, outlasting her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak. 

    It is a remarkable rise to the top job for this Oxford-educated mother-of-2, who has served in various ministerial positions under 3 different prime ministers over the last decade.

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