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  • Terrible Truss tenure terminated

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  Embattled UK Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday put in her papers after 44 tumultuous days in office, going down in British history as the shortest-serving premier ever. The slide began after last month’s mini-budget got embroiled in controversy as it contained £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts, which triggered uncertainty in the sterling and gilt markets. 

    Making a brief statement outside 10, Downing Street, Truss said a new party leader and prime minister would be chosen within a week. That set the clock for the election of her successor, with the names of former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman doing the rounds. The name of Truss’ predecessor Boris Johnson, too, is in circulation. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt ruled himself out, which could bolster a Sunak ticket because he was in the latter’s camp before taking over the finance portfolio. 

    In the morning, Truss had met Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs that sets the rules for the party leadership vote. He said the successor should be in place by next Friday. The narrowed-down election window of a week necessitates online polling. 

    Each candidate will need the support of 100 MPs to enter the fray. But if there is only one candidate in the race, there would be no need for a vote. However, the 1.6 lakh Tory voters have been promised a say in electing the new leader. “Bookmakers are putting Sunak and Mordaunt and Wallace as favourites,’’ said a political observer from London. 

    “I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party…. I will remain as PM until a successor has been chosen,” Truss said in her brief speech. Crisis talks with Sir Graham, deputy PM Therese Coffey and Tory chair Jake Berry amid an avalanche of no-trust letters from party MPs gave her the sense that her time was up. A day earlier, there was big Tory confusion over whether a Labour motion in Parliament involved a whip. The issue put to vote was on MPs having a say on the government’s fracking plans to drill for gas. 

    NEW DELHI:  Embattled UK Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday put in her papers after 44 tumultuous days in office, going down in British history as the shortest-serving premier ever. The slide began after last month’s mini-budget got embroiled in controversy as it contained £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts, which triggered uncertainty in the sterling and gilt markets. 

    Making a brief statement outside 10, Downing Street, Truss said a new party leader and prime minister would be chosen within a week. That set the clock for the election of her successor, with the names of former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman doing the rounds. The name of Truss’ predecessor Boris Johnson, too, is in circulation. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt ruled himself out, which could bolster a Sunak ticket because he was in the latter’s camp before taking over the finance portfolio. 

    In the morning, Truss had met Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs that sets the rules for the party leadership vote. He said the successor should be in place by next Friday. The narrowed-down election window of a week necessitates online polling. 

    Each candidate will need the support of 100 MPs to enter the fray. But if there is only one candidate in the race, there would be no need for a vote. However, the 1.6 lakh Tory voters have been promised a say in electing the new leader. “Bookmakers are putting Sunak and Mordaunt and Wallace as favourites,’’ said a political observer from London. 

    “I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party…. I will remain as PM until a successor has been chosen,” Truss said in her brief speech. Crisis talks with Sir Graham, deputy PM Therese Coffey and Tory chair Jake Berry amid an avalanche of no-trust letters from party MPs gave her the sense that her time was up. A day earlier, there was big Tory confusion over whether a Labour motion in Parliament involved a whip. The issue put to vote was on MPs having a say on the government’s fracking plans to drill for gas. 

  • Center decides to remove 10,000 soldiers from Jammu and Kashmir

    The Government of India, after a review, ordered the immediate withdrawal of 10,000 paramilitary personnel from Jammu and Kashmir. These 100 companies are being sent to pre-deployment locations in Jammu and Kashmir. The Home Ministry also recalled about 10 companies of CAPF from Jammu Kashmir in May.
    Actually, before the abolition of Section 370 in Jammu and Kashmir last year, additional security forces were deployed in Jammu and Kashmir for security reasons. Now 100 of these companies have been asked to move out of Jammu and Kashmir and return to the parts of the country where their deployment was before the end of Article 370.
    According to reports, a meeting of the Union Home Ministry has been held in which a review has been done on the number of paramilitary forces in Jammu and Kashmir. Among them, after reviewing the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in Jammu and Kashmir, it was decided that 100 companies (10,000 personnel) would be removed from there with immediate effect.
    The Home Ministry also recalled about 10 companies of CAPF from Jammu Kashmir in May. It has been reported that a total of 40 companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and 20 companies of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Border Security Force (BSF) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) were removed from Jammu and Kashmir within a week. Will be recalled.