The Truss factor: Economy the biggest challenge for UK's new PM

Gargantuan challenges await her after the prolonged policy paralysis of the Boris Johnson era

Former foreign minister Mary Elizabeth Truss, better known as Liz, takes charge as the fourth prime minister since the Brexit vote in 2016 and the third woman to hold that office after handily beating former chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak by a 20,927 vote margin. Though her victory was a foregone conclusion within the mostly white and ageing members of the Conservative Party, she is yet to test her popularity in the national hustings of the multicultural nation she heads. Each of her post-Brexit predecessors, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, held snap elections after they entered No. 10 Downing