{"id":255976,"date":"2022-09-05T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=255976"},"modified":"2022-09-05T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T15:42:47","slug":"liz-truss-becomes-new-uk-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=255976","title":{"rendered":"Liz Truss Becomes New UK Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Britain\u2019s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party\u2019s new leader, and she will take office Tuesday as the U.K.\u2019s new prime minister to steer the country through an acute cost-of-living crisis. Truss\u2019 selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in which only about 170,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak, the government\u2019s former Treasury chief. She faces immediate pressure to deliver on her promises to tackle the economic crisis walloping the U.K. Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to formally name Truss as Britain\u2019s prime minister on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Britain\u2019s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party\u2019s new leader, and she will take office Tuesday as the U.K.\u2019s new prime minister to steer the country through an acute cost-of-living crisis. Truss\u2019 selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255978,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255976\/revisions\/255978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}