Liz Truss, the current foreign minister, will become the next prime minister of Britain

Britain will get a new prime minister after the resignation of Boris Johnson. Liz Truss won the leadership race for the governing Conservative Party 81,326 votes to 60,399. She beat former finance minister Rishi Sunak to become the third woman after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May to become the PM. Liz Truss has vowed to press ahead with promised tax cuts. Her eyes are also on issues like tackling a deepening energy and cost of living crisis. Other points ahead of her are household finances, industrial unrest, a recession and war in Europe. Britain has stood beside Ukraine. She does not foresee another national election before 2024. At that juncture, she would like to deliver a great victory for her party. Observers notice signs of divisions in her party. This is because of her narrow winning margin. Her opponent Rishi Sunak went to a social media platform and said - "It's right we now unite behind the new PM, Liz Truss, as she steers the country through difficult times." Liz Truss vows tax cuts after winning vote to be next British prime minister. Boris Johnson, the outgoing incumbent will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth and officially tender his resignation. Liz Truss will follow him and the monarch is expected to ask her to form a government.

Truss (47) will now become the Conservatives' fourth prime minister since a 2015 election. Since then Britain has found the going tough and now faces a long recession and inflation which has already reached double digits. Business leaders from different sectors want her to evolve strategies in order to arrest the soaring cost of energy. They also want her to tighten labor markets to ensure survival of business. The PM-in waiting has promised to act quickly.

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#WaterCannons #BorisJohnson #London #TheresaMay #Belfast Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, had gone ahead and purchased three Ziegler Wasserwerfer 9000 (water cannons) for the London Police at a cost of £218,000 – the canons were 25-year-old German machines. Scotland Yard had bought these second hand from German police last year.
But, the Mayor is now hard pressed to defend the purchase because Home Secretary Theresa May has decided not to authorize the use of water cannon by police in England and Wales because use of such cannons could cause serious injuries like spinal fractures, eye injuries and blunt trauma.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 15 July 2015.

She has told MPs that she was ruling out allowing forces to use these cannons after a thorough review. It seems thee were 67 issues found even after the cannons had undergone repairs.
As a result, the Metropolitan Police has said that they are "naturally disappointed" they will not be able to use the water cannons.
It seems the purchase of the water cannon had been backed by police, the Prime Minister and the people of London but, approval of the Home Office had not been taken.
Incidentally, such machines have never been used on the British mainland. They have, however, been deployed in Northern Ireland and were used to quell recent disturbances in Belfast.
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London Mayor Boris Johnson triggers controversy by his remarks on jihadists

#borisjohnson #jihadist #islamicstate London Mayor Boris Johnson has, in an interview with a major publication house, triggered a controversy by his interpretation of the mindset of jihadists as reported in news.sky.com of dated 30 January 2015 – in his opinion, they are tortured, are badly adjusted in their relations with women which, they feel, is an indication of failure and that the whole world is against them.
In short, in the opinion of the Mayor, jihadists are rejected by women, are not making it with girls, and they turn to other forms of spiritual comfort.
It may be recalled that earlier, in August, he had said that Britain must take on Islamic State (IS) and "try to close it down now" and had warned that doing nothing would mean a "tide of terror will eventually lap at our own front door".
As he has put it, the type of people who are likely to get involved in ISIS or get radicalized are similar to those who are vulnerable to becoming drug addicts or other types of criminal activity. These people are just young men in desperate need of self-esteem and they do not have a particular mission in life. They perceive themselves as losers and resort to actions that make them feel like winners.