A new British government marked by diversity and loyalty

Published on: 06/09/2022 – 21:30 The new British Prime Minister Liz Truss unveiled the composition of her government on Tuesday, with the faithful in key positions, but also personalities from diversity. Liz Truss was officially appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on Tuesday September 6 by Queen Elizabeth II and in the evening unveiled the composition of her government, which is openly focused on diversity. For the first time, none of the cabinet’s three main portfolios (Finance, Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs) is held by a white man. Ghana, 47, is thus promoted to the post of Minister of Finance, at a time when the country is going through its most serious economic crisis in decades. The first black to be appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, this son of immigrants from Ghana who arrived in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, had been Minister for Business, Industry and Energy since January 2021. He is also a pure liberal, apostle of low taxes and the market economy. The new Minister of Finance co-authored in 2012, with other conservatives including Liz Truss, the book “Britannia Unchained”, including advocating a shrinking state and calling British workers “the world’s worst idlers” – the Prime Minister made waves during her campaign by again evoking a supposed lack of hard work among the British. Kwasi Kwarteng will have to first implement the tax cuts promised by Liz Truss. They will make it possible to “put money back in the pockets of people” and businesses to revive an economy on the verge of recession, he assured in a column Monday in the Financial Times. Suella Braverman, a very right-wing conservative at the British InteriorInside, Suella Braverman, a 42-year-old former lawyer, is of Indian origin through her parents. This very conservative elected official will now have to tackle the issue of migrants who arrive illegally on British shores. in a legal battle over her plan to return illegal migrants to Rwanda. Suella Braverman was one of the first to declare herself a candidate to take the reins of the Conservative Party after the resignation of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Her fierce Euroscepticism and commitment to defending right-wing values ​​has made her popular with party members. James Cleverly, a loyal but little-known foreign minister Truss has chosen a loyal but little known figure abroad to succeed him in this key post in a turbulent period on the European and international scene. For this 53-year-old Brexit supporter, originally from the south-east from London and whose mother is from Sierra Leone, this appointment as head of British diplomacy is a reward after his unfailing loyalty to Liz Truss during the campaign to appoint Boris Johnson’s successor. But James Cleverly takes office at a difficult time: in addition to the war in Ukraine and the increasingly tense relations with China, he will have to manage the confrontation with the European Union over the post-Brexit status of Ireland and from the North. This army reservist spent two years as Secretary of State in the Foreign Office, after having held a position in the department which managed Brexit. On the British political scene, he has gained exposure in the past two months, being appointed Minister for Education in early July, after the wave of resignations following the departure of Boris Johnson from 10 Downing Street. After presenting as one of her priorities the recovery of the public health service, weakened by ten years of austerity and the pandemic, Liz Truss has also appointed Therese Coffey, a close friend, Minister of Health with the title of Deputy Prime Minister. of musical chairs, Ben Wallace, very popular, is kept at Defense, a key post because of the war in Ukraine, of which London is one of the main supporters. With AFP