What kind of prime minister will Liz Truss be?

What kind of prime minister will Liz Truss be?
The new UK PM is optimistic by nature but will “bash at the walls like a wasp in a bell jar” in Downing Street, The Economist suggests.
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Declinism, that dull fear of Britain’s sunset, has shaped the country’s post-war politics.It propelled Harold Macmillan’s wish to enter the European Economic Community, the EU’s precursor, and fuelled Margaret Thatcher’s economic revolution.Now it has helped Liz Truss into Downing Street.On Sept 5, Truss was declared the winner of the ballot of 172,000 Conservative party members to replace Boris Johnson as the Tory leader; tomorrow, she will fly to Balmoral Castle, Queen Elizabeth’s r...

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