• United Kingdom Liz Truss, in her inaugural speech as Prime Minister: "Together we can weather the storm"

The "premier"

Liz Truss

has held her first council of ministers in Downing Street, made up almost exclusively of politicians "loyal" to

Boris Johnson

and with the incorporation of

Thérèse Coffey

as deputy prime minister and secretary of Health.

For the first time in UK history, two women hold the reins of power.

Truss has gone a step further than Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, who always relied on "trustworthy men" for office.


Thérèse Coffey replaces

Dominic Raab

, who is leaving through the back door of Downing Street, as do Steve Barclay, Grant Shapps and other ministers who threw their support behind former Treasury Secretary

Rishi Sunak

, the "loser" in the race for the succession of Boris Johnson.


At 50, Thérèse Coffey had held second-tier posts to Theresa May and Johnson himself, who eventually promoted her to Work and Pensions Secretary in 2019. During the string of resignations that forced Johnson out, Coffey defended the "premier" and then jumped on the Liz Truss bandwagon, turned into his

campaign adviser.


The new deputy prime minister, single and childless, is

a practicing Catholic and has an ultra-conservative voting record:

she opposed gay marriage and voted against extending abortion rights in Northern Ireland.

She has also occasionally led to tensions with pensioners.

A smoker and overweight, her critics have questioned her fitness as a health secretary.


With her string of appointments - Kwasi Kwarteng as Treasury Secretary, James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary, Suella Braverman as Home Secretary - Liz Truss has been criticized from different sectors of the Conservative Party for

putting "loyalty" ahead of "competition". "

and for resisting the formation of a unity government (the permanence of Ben Wallace as Secretary of Defense has, however, been recognized by all the "Tory" factions).

Controversy over the new Secretary of the Interior


One of the most controversial appointments has been that of Suella Braverman as Secretary of the Interior, replacing the controversial Priti Patel.

Braverman, 40, the daughter of Indian immigrants living in Kenya and Mauritius, was attorney general under Boris Johnson and is considered the representative of the ultra-conservative wing of the party.


During the campaign for the Tory leadership, in which he ran among the first eight candidates, Braverman

came to defend the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Court of Human Rights

and the renunciation of the goal of zero emissions in 2050. He also promised to continue with the controversial plan for the deportation of refugees to Rwanda, which this week has returned to court (while the record of more than 27,000 immigrants who have crossed the English Channel this year was recorded).


Another controversial appointment is that of the also ultra-conservative Jacob Ress-Mogg as Secretary of Business and Energy, despite his anathemas

against "climate alarmism"

and his defense of the fossil fuel industry.

His rise within the Government (he was already minister of "opportunities" for Brexit) has put environmental groups on guard.

Ranil Jayawardena, the son of Sri Lankan immigrants, will be the new Environment Secretary.


Kit Malthouse, also loyal to Johnson, is the new Secretary of Education.

The combative Kemi Badenoch, the great revelation during the campaign, will be Secretary of Commerce.

Penny Mordaunt, the third candidate to snap at Truss's heels during the campaign, has been rewarded for her part as Speaker of the Tories in the House of Commons.

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