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The New Prime Minister, Liz Truss, Wins the Contest
Liz Truss replaces a sitting prime minister, she doesn't need to win in a general election. She only needs to win the votes of roughly 160,000 rank and file members of the party. These are people for whom a tax cut is uniquely attractive. So that message is really tailored to them, and they respond to it, and she wins the contest. And two days later, Queen Elizabeth dies. Liz Truss becomes overnight one of the mourners in chief for Britain.