On October 20th local time, British Prime Minister Tras delivered a speech at No. 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's Office, announcing his resignation. Tras said that given the current situation, she could not fulfill the promises she made during the Conservative elections. The election campaign for the new leader of the Conservative Party will be held next week. Tras was the prime minister for only 6 weeks and was in trouble after taking office. The rapid turnaround in tax cuts and other budget measures has attracted widespread criticism and voices have been heard everywhere. Tras is also the shortest-term Prime Minister in British history. Tras will temporarily serve as British Prime Minister before electing a new Conservative leader.
On September 5, 2022, Tras won the election and successfully became the leader of the Conservative Party. On September 6th local time, Elizabeth Trass accepted the official appointment of Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland and became the new British Prime Minister. Tras is the third British female prime minister after Thatcher and Theresa May .
It is worth mentioning that this photo of the meeting with Tras is the last photo taken before the death of Queen of England . The shooting location is in Elizabeth II 's favorite Balmoral Castle , which is located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. On September 6 local time, she met with newly elected British Prime Minister Liz Tras in this living room in the photo. On September 8, Buckingham Palace in the UK confirmed that Queen Elizabeth II died that day.
When he first took office, facing the mess left by the inaugural Prime Minister Johnson , British media and polling agencies generally expressed pessimism about the future of the Trass government. According to Global Network , the latest poll results of the British polling agency YouGov on the 5th showed that 67% of respondents said they completely or almost distrust the political decisions of the Trass cabinet and their plans to respond to the crisis, while only 19% of respondents expressed a certain degree of trust.
Since Tras came to power, the domestic economic situation in the UK has been drastically turbulent. According to CNN (CNN) on October 19, data released by the UK National Statistics Agency on the same day showed that the inflation rate in the UK rose to 10.1% in September, the same as the inflation rate in July, and higher than 9.9% from September 2021 to August 2022, reaching a 40-year high. Soaring food and energy prices have driven recent inflation in the UK.
For the question of "If Tras resigns, who will most likely take over as prime minister?", 32% of the respondents chose Johnson. Sunak, who had previously lost to Trass in the Conservative Party leader election, is also a popular candidate, ranking second with a 23% approval rating. Wallace, the third-placed Secretary of Defense, received 10% support.
Director of the Center for European Studies at Fudan University and vice president of Chinese European Society believes that Johnson has expressed his willingness to become prime minister again and has certain abilities and appeal, so Johnson has the possibility of re-emerging. But he pointed out that if Tras stepped down, despite the high voice of polls, it is not easy for Johnson to make up his mind and go back to the forefront of Conservative Party members such as Sunak, Hunter, and Parliament House leader Penny Mordaunt.
(Source: @China Daily, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV News, The Paper, etc.)
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