Liz Truss must keep an open mind if she wants to stay in Number 10
The UK’s new prime minister is famously a political shape-shifter. The best thing she could do now is dump the rigid Thatcherite program she propagated to win Conservative Party approval.
With Conservative Party members having chosen foreign secretary Liz Truss to succeed Boris Johnson as their leader, Britain will have its third prime minister since voters decided in June 2016 to leave the European Union.
Truss has just two years and a few months to go before another general election must be held. To survive, she will need to tackle a long list of policy challenges, unify her deeply divided party, and win over more of the public.
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Jim O’Neill was chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and former commercial secretary to the UK Treasury.
