Nearly two months after Boris Johnson reluctantly announced his resignation on the steps of 10 Downing Street, Britain has finally chosen a new leader: Liz Truss.
Despite the U.K.’s soon-to-be third female leader’s efforts to promote herself as the ideological reincarnate of its first, Margaret Thatcher, Truss is perhaps most aptly seen as the continuity Johnson candidate. And perhaps just as well: After she is formally appointed Prime Minister by the Queen on Sept. 6, Truss’s first order of business will be to tackle the many crises that her predecessor left behind.
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Pictured here: New Conservative Party leader and incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss shakes hands with Conservative Party Chairman Andrew Stephenson upon her arrival at Conservative Party Headquarters; Photograph by Carl Court—@gettyimages