Liz Truss is surely about to be made the UK’s fourth Tory prime minister in six years. She will replace Boris Johnson after pledging, to the Conservative Party members that will elect the new leader today (5 September), a radical tax-cutting agenda. Meanwhile, Britons prepare themselves for the biggest fall in living standards in generations.
The Foreign Secretary faces an uphill struggle to unite not just the country but her party, after the leadership contest unleashed a summer of Conservative infighting. But who could be in her first cabinet?
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