Not Surprising, But Not Good News

On Thursday, The Daily Caller reported that British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation at a speech outside Downing Street Thursday after just six weeks in office. This is sad. There is so much she could have accomplished had she had the proper allies.

The article reports:

Truss won the Conservative Party’s vote after her predecessor, Boris Johnson, likewise resigned following several defections from within his own party. Truss’s own records include the resignations of two ministers and a tax plan that sent markets tanking as the country struggles with 40-year cost of living high, according to the BBC.

“I recognize… given the situation I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party,” Truss said, according to the BBC.

…Truss noted that she arrived in office during a period of “great economic and international instability,” including an international energy crunch that has hit the U.K. particularly hard and a raging war in Ukraine that is wreaking havoc on the continent, according to the BBC.

She campaigned on implementing largest tax cuts in 50 years are part of a strategy to spur economic growth while keeping government spending up, but the expected revenue loss — £45 billion ($49 billion) in anticipated revenue over five years, as of Sept. 23 — sent the British pound plummeting to historic lows lowest against the dollar.

This is not good news for either Britain or freedom-loving people all over the world. Britain needs a successful conservative leader. There are forces at work to bring Britain back into the European Union, and I suspect that they are not playing nicely. Also, as populism moves through Europe, it threatens the World Economic Forum and their dreams for a new world order. Britain was seemingly ready to join the countries that are standing up for their citizens. The people of Britain voted her into office; the politicians forced her out.