THE crisis engulfing us needs radical solutions and a radical Prime Minister. In Liz Truss, we believe Britain has found one.
We heartily congratulate her on her election — and the Tory Party on picking its third female PM.
In her hands now lie the futures of Sun readers, of millions of families and firms, as well as the fate of the Tory Party and the long-term political direction of our nation.
All will be shaped by the big calls she makes, not in years to come but within days.
Her task is monumental and the forces ranged against her mountainous.
The Left’s politicians and media allies have not wasted a second pivoting from their long hate campaign against Boris Johnson to the predicted new front against Miss Truss.
That is not just because they loathe Tories and Brexit.
It is because they fear she is a far more powerful and canny foe than they publicly pretend.
They want Britain to believe she is a flip-flopping lightweight who lacks brains. They are wrong on both counts.
She is hard-working, intelligent and driven by her beliefs in freedom, low taxes and a small, efficient State.
When she vows to govern as a Conservative we do not doubt it.
Her welcome commitments to reduce taxes and turbo-charge growth, and to finally deliver on the promise of Brexit and the other pledges of Boris’s victorious 2019 manifesto, are music to our ears.
But her first major intervention will not be a traditionally Tory one. Because cutting taxes will do nothing immediate to keep the lowest-paid from the ruin of soaring energy bills.
They, and some businesses, will need Covid-style bailouts, as grim as that will be for Britain’s balance sheet.
Miss Truss must then make up for 27 years wasted by successive governments and secure our energy supplies. That means vast investments in nuclear, North Sea drilling, wind, solar and fracking.
It will mean, as with our housing shortages, facing down NIMBYs who would block any development within 50 miles of their home if they could.
The energy crisis is just the beginning. Miss Truss must kick-start the economy.
Along with lowering taxes she must slash regulation and display a Thatcherite iron will to defeat the hard-Left unions aiming to destabilise her Government via orchestrated strikes.
We also need nothing less than a revolution on policing and crime. If a cohort of chief constables needs firing, so be it.
Britain is sick of rapes going unprosecuted and burglaries uninvestigated while rainbow-clad coppers dance the Macarena at Pride events for Twitter likes.
Manpower is not the problem. Too often these forces are led by buffoons whose wokery informs rank-and-file cops.
That same woke idiocy — the aggressive, self-righteous obsession with imposing extreme political correctness — must end across the civil service.
Her welcome commitments to reduce taxes and turbo-charge growth, and to finally deliver on the promise of Brexit and the other pledges of Boris’s victorious 2019 manifesto, are music to our ears
So must the shocking waste and lethargy as Whitehall officials supposedly working from home do next to nothing or even actively seek to thwart Tory policies.
Miss Truss further needs to correct the abject failure of Boris’s Government to control illegal cross-Channel immigration.
Even campaigners bleating that the arrivals are “refugees” find themselves wrong-footed by boatloads of young men from peaceful Albania landing with impunity for new lives in Britain.
The new Government must overcome the left-wing lawyers and judges to get the Rwanda deterrent scheme started in earnest, as well as the regular deportations already agreed with Albania.
This racket must end. Aside from the massive burden it places on taxpayers, Britain has conspicuously and embarrassingly failed to “take back control” of our borders after Brexit.
As for the NHS, it must be fully funded and the Covid backlogs slashed. But reform is crucial.
The scandalous over-manning by penpushers with zero impact on patient care must end.
How can NHS finances truly be stretched when scores of diversity managers are being hired on £50,000?
As a born-again Leaver, and the signatory to so many post-EU trade deals, Miss Truss is acutely aware how much of Brexit’s potential has yet to be realised.
She must capitalise on those golden opportunities, all at risk of reversal should she ever cede power to Labour.
She must resolve too the Northern Ireland standoff, not with belligerence but with firmness.
The EU’s hard line, a fit of pique over our referendum six years ago, is the major threat to peace there and our new PM must convince them to see it.
The new Government must overcome the left-wing lawyers and judges to get the Rwanda deterrent scheme started in earnest, as well as the regular deportations already agreed with Albania
On Ukraine, Miss Truss’s task is simpler: To continue arming and funding that violated nation in defence of their freedom and the West’s.
To continue leading the world against Russia’s tyranny as Boris did, to his great credit.
These many huge challenges will need a first-rate Cabinet which Miss Truss must pick more astutely than Boris did his. She must be guided not by personal loyalty but by talent.
The notion that Labour is currently a better bet to resolve these vast issues is laughable.
It remains incredible that its leader Keir Starmer was able to batter Boris on the subject of “honesty”.
Starmer lied to Leavers about respecting their vote. He lied to the Left to get elected. He campaigned to put racist Putin fans in Downing Street . . . and now disowns them.
His current poll leads reflect only Tory unpopularity.
Britain shows little desire to install him in No10 and his party knows it. A party, we should add, which — despite Starmer’s attempt at a clean-up — still has a legion of far-left extremists in its ranks.
But, given the scale of the problems facing our new PM, even Labour has a chance of stumbling backwards into power in 2024.
Miss Truss has precious little time to improve Sun readers’ lives and convince voters to give her five more years to effect lasting change.
But if her party unites behind her, as it must, we strongly believe she can do both.
She has our support — and we wish her every ounce of luck.
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