Bills, Russia and resentful MPs Key challenges facing the new prime minister
Sep 09, 2022
3 minutes
Peter Walker
1 Energy prices and cost of living
How Liz Truss tackles this will define her prime ministership and the fate of the UK in the coming years. People want answers very quickly, and it was expected they would get them this week.
Truss has fought her Tory leadership campaign by relentlessly focusing on calls for tax cuts, and has been sceptical of what she called “handouts” – that is, direct government help for people facing energy
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