The suspense, relative however, comes to an end at 10 Downing Street.

Two months after the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and in the midst of a cost of living crisis, the British will finally know this Monday who will succeed him, probably Liz Truss.

The outcome of the vote, open to some 200,000 members of the Conservative Party, leaves little room for doubt as the head of diplomacy Liz Truss is ahead in the polls against former finance minister Rishi Sunak.

The 47-year-old minister, who remained loyal to Boris Johnson to the end when the resignations within the executive were counted by the dozens in early July, will become except for a dramatic change the fourth British Prime Minister since the Brexit referendum in 2016, the third woman to hold this position after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May in UK history.

After the end of the member vote on Friday evening, the announcement of Boris Johnson's successor, forced to resign after a series of scandals and lies, is scheduled for Monday at 12:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. in Paris).

The new Downing Street tenant takes office in an explosive economic and social context, with inflation which exceeds 10% and is expected to rise considerably, and an exorbitant rise in energy bills which threatens families such as schools, hospitals and businesses.

An expected tax reform

Economic policy also naturally found itself at the center of the long campaign, marked very to the right, but sometimes seemed disconnected from the dramatic worsening of the crisis during the summer.

Liz Truss seduced by promising massive tax cuts and taking a very tough tone against unions.

For his part, Rishi Sunak, a wealthy former banker, lost points by advocating an economic realism far from "fairy tales" and was seen as a technocrat giving lessons unable to understand the difficulties of British households.

Sunday, Liz Truss assured the BBC that elected, she would act "from the first week" to help the British with their energy bills, however refusing to specify the concrete nature of the measures she intended to take.

She also stressed that she would present "within a month" a tax reform project to deal with the crisis.

If she has seduced the base of the party in power for 12 years in the United Kingdom, 52% of the British believe that she will be a poor or even terrible Prime Minister according to a recent YouGov poll.

Not sure, therefore, that the vague promises are enough to calm the social discontent that has shaken the country like never since the Thatcher years (1979-1990).

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