Liz Truss received the job of British Prime Minister Monday, and now we’ll see if she will raise her Conservative Get together and nation out of the financial and vitality mess into which Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pushed it.

Ms. Truss defeated rival former Chancellor Rishi Sunak 57%-43% by rallying the rank and file behind her with a Thatcherite financial message the social gathering and U.Okay. haven’t heard from the Conservatives in years. Tax cuts prime her agenda, together with a reversal of Mr. Johnson’s 2.5-percentage-point payroll-tax enhance and deliberate enhance within the company tax charge to 26% from 19%.