The third female prime minister in the UK: This iron lady is not a iron lady

Author:China News Weekly Time:2022.09.07

The upcoming economic recession

War on the European continent

And this winter may still come back

The epidemic of squeezing the British medical resources

They all determine at least half a year after Tillas took office

It is never possible to spend easily

At noon on September 5, local time, the conference hall of Elizabeth II Center of the British Parliament Building was full. At the British Conservative Party Conference, the Party's 1922 committee chairman Sir Bredi officially announced the invoicing result of the new party leader election. In this way, the media expected that the current Minister of Foreign Affairs Elizabeth Tellas received 57.4%of the votes of all party members, defeating the former wealth of Ceremony, Rich Sunak, and elected as the new conservative party leader. On September 6, she went north to Scotland, and saw the queen who was stationed in the Balmoles Castle.

The successful election of Tras announced that the British "political earthquake", which has been continuing for several months. Tellas himself also made his wishes. Following Mrs. Sachel and Teresa May, he became the third female Prime Minister of the Conservative Party and Britain. Since Cameron, British Prime Minister, who has three consecutive conservative party membership, took over the party leader through the party election and then served as the Prime Minister. Moreover, the problems and tasks faced when these three prime ministers came to power can be described as more and more difficult.

(Data picture) Tras. Picture/Surging Image

"Xueba" of the left family

In 1975, Tellas was born in Oxford, England. Her family is a very typical British middle -class intellectual. Her father, John Tellas, graduated from the Mathematical College of Cambridge University. In 1973, he received a PhD in pure mathematics at the University of Leeds. Is a nurse. When their only daughter was born, Old Teslas had just obtained his first academic work -the junior researcher at Oxford University.

According to Tras, her parents are "left in the Labor Party", which is very keen on topics such as liberalism, nuclear disarmament, and saving the earth. When he was 4 years old, his father received a lecturer in a lecturer from the University of Science and Technology (the predecessor of the University of Scotland today), so his family moved to Scotland. Tortlas spent childhood in the town of Glasgow's outskirts with deep industrial workers and unions. Go to the end.

Tellas recalled his two stories in his childhood. At that time, Pesley town will erupt almost every weekend of the conservative party government who opposes the conservative party government led by Mrs. Sachel, or the little girl's Tras will use the old carpet to make a fake bomb and follow her mother to participate in the nuclear disarmament. Ignorant, she will follow the crowd to shout, "Maggie, Maggie, rolled! Get! Roll!" Another story was that during the 1983 election, the simulation election debate was organized in Pesley Western Primary School. Steen played Mrs. Sachel. But when the debate ended the voting, "Mrs. Sachel" did not get a vote, including Tellas himself, he did not vote for his role. "Even at that age, we know that in western Scotland, the Conservative Party is unpopular." She said.

In 1985, the Tellas family moved back to England again due to his father's work change to the industrial city in the north. Tellas was studying in a common public middle school in Liz. She recalled that the school's teaching quality was not high, and even hardly worked hard to ensure that the children had the basic English grammar and mathematical foundation, and most of the students had no intention to go to the university. But in the eyes of middle school classmates, Tellas is "female school hegemony" and "weird". Tellas, who was born in the northern grassroots school, did benefit from the background of his intellectual family. In 1993, he was admitted to the University of Oxford University of Oxford. specialized.

Oxford's college career has completely liberated Tras' political views. She no longer needs to consider the political tendency of the northern industrial zone and the restraint brought by the "left in the left" family to herself, and began to participate in students' politics in depth. She joined the third largest party in the UK in the university, actively participated in debate, supported the legalization of marijuana, called on the abolition of the monarchy, and was elected chairman of the Oxford University of Liberty Democratic Party Association. According to her classmates in Oxford, at the time, Tras had shown "extraordinary political ambitions."

Sachiel's loyal believers

In 1996, Tillas graduated from Oxford and worked at Shell Petroleum to become a registered accountant. It was also this year, she officially jumped from the Liberal Democratic Party to the Conservative Party. After becoming famous, she did not do much about the transformation of her political stance this time, but she just evaluated that she had made "young mistakes". In an interview in 2019, she said: "We will make mistakes during young people. Some people have drugs, and others have joined the Liberal Democratic Party."

However, when the young Tras joined the Conservative Party, it coincided with the most difficult historical period of the Conservative Party. At that time, Blair led the Labor Party to complete the transformation of the "New Labor Party" from traditional workers to more intermediates, and won the general election in 1997, opening up the Labor Party for 13 consecutive years. In 2001, Tillas, only 26 years old, represented the Conservative Party to the seat of a parliamentarian of Capitol, where his hometown was located, and defeated unexpectedly. In 2005, she was running in the dark red Sekorkshire again and still lost. It was not until 2006 that she won the first election victory in the Greenworm in London and became the district councilor of Grindini. But at this time, Tras had received the attention of the Conservative Party. After Cameron became the leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, the Conservative Party started the process of new and old alternation. Tellas was selected to enter the "A list" of the Conservative Party's key training of young, ethnic minorities and female politicians. Since then Political career fast lane. In the 2010 election, Tellas was assigned to run for Southwest Norfolk constituency. This is a quite conservative rural constituency, and it is also a security seat controlled by the Conservative Party for many years. Although at this time, due to an extramarital affairs scandal, the local party department of the local Conservative Party did not wait to see her, and even tried to stop her nomination for her, but in the end, Tellas still won the victory under pressure and became a member of the parliament. Moreover, her marriage with her husband, who was also an accountant, was also tested by the storm.

As soon as I entered the parliament, the young Tras quickly showed a strong ideological position. She is an enthusiastic believer in the free market economy advocated by Mrs. Sachel. She quickly established a group called "Free Enterprise Group" in the parliament and received more than 40 conservative members. In addition to Trasse, members of this group have also emerged as a group of later political stars, including the Johnson government's deputy prime minister Labu, the internal affairs minister of Patt, and the business minister Kwen. Together with these colleagues in the party, Tellas said that he said that he promoted his political and economic policy claims. Tras believes that the decline of the British economy is not unavoidable, but the most needed by the United Kingdom is the system of free business and the system of choosing a sage.

Among the most famous book "Britannia Unchaned", the most famous book participating in writing, there is such a sentence: "When entering the job, the British are one of the most lazy in the world. Our retirement is too early, and our work efficiency is extremely low. "Here we can see that childhood and teenagers have grown in the old industrial community in the left, and the work experience in the multinational corporate group in the future allows Traz Extremely negative attitude. She sincerely believes that Sachel's and large -scale liberal economic reforms are the only recipe for saving the British economy and society, and left -wing politics will only bring Britain into a deeper decline trap.

In 2014, 38 -year -old Trasl was appointed Minister of Environment, Food and Agricultural Affairs, and became the youngest woman in the cabinet at that time. Two years later, she became a judicial jurisdiction in Teresa May Cabinet. The minister has become the first female judge (honorary position) in Britain's nearly a thousand years of history. However, Tras, who breaks the "gender ceiling" again and again, is extremely disliked about the identity of gender, race, and class origin. It is not equal to the results of the identity based on the results of the identity.

After Johnson came to power in 2019, the Brexit process was settled, and Trasse had been in the field of diplomacy. She first served as the Minister of International Trade, who became extremely important after Brexit, and signed a free trade agreement between Britain and Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Iceland. These free trade agreements ease the trade dilemma faced after Brexit after Brexit, and they are more conservatively conservatively added a lot in public opinion. Although the United Kingdom's most hoped to obtain the US -British Free Trade Agreement has not been signed, Tras also persuaded the United States to let go of a considerable number of tariffs and quota restrictions from British goods. If it was not for the sudden outbreak of the new crown epidemic in the world, these trade agreements could have played a greater role in the British economy.

In September 2021, Tellas was promoted to Foreign Minister by Johnson, becoming the second female in British history after Becrt. Tellas continued his strong stance in foreign policy, and he pursued a strong ideological confrontation in China and Russian diplomacy. In February 2022, the Russian -Ukraine conflict was upgraded on a large scale, and Tellas supported Ukraine clearly, and soon responded to President Zeelianzki's call to approve British volunteers to enter Ukraine to participate in the battle. The move caused strong protests from the Russian government, and even pushed Russia's nuclear alarm level. Since then, Tras has accused the Russian government and its leaders in almost all diplomatic occasions, calling on all Western allies to unite and restrict the import of oil and gas in Russia to get rid of Russia's energy dependence.

The problem of the new "iron lady"

During the political turmoil in the Conservative Party broke out this summer, and Johnson was forced to step down, Tras, as the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, has always maintained loyalty to Johnson, and has never published any negative evaluation of Johnson. It wasn't until Johnson confirmed that he resigned and stepped down 3 days that she stood up and announced that she would participate in the party leader election. This has made her unite to the greatest extent the power of Johnson in the parliament and ordinary conservative party members. Therefore, since the parliamentary party voted in the party and elected her and Sunak's final competition for the party leader, her polls in the Conservative Party have been far ahead of Sonak. It can be said that in the end she was elected only with less than 15%, but an accident, even if it did not affect the final election results. However, this stall received by Trasse may be much more complicated and difficult than her predecessors. Since the beginning of this year, Britain has encountered the worst inflation in decades, and the latest inflation rate has exceeded 10%, ranking first among the Seventh Kingdom Group (G7). The rise in the unprecedented energy crisis and natural gas prices caused by the Russian -Ukraine conflict has made the British people unbearable, and whether the demand for heating this winter this winter is still unknown. In addition, it can be expected that the upcoming economic recession, the war on the European continent, and the epidemic that may still be rolled up this winter to squeeze the British medical resources. Over.

In this regard, the response plan currently proposed by Tras is "in charge of the Conservative Party like a conservative." She launched a strong tax reduction plan, promising to abolish the original plan to increase the original corporate tax from 19%to 25%, and will withdraw the proportion of national insurance funds for the increase in the proportion of national insurance funds next year. These two points were proposed by her competitors Sonak in the wealth. Of course, it is obvious that because of the impact of the new crown epidemic and the assistance during the epidemic, the British government is undergoing serious financial and debt burdens. If such a large scale reduction, British debt issues will deteriorate. Tellas proposed "delayed repayment period until the national debt problem was relieved", but whether the move could work, it still takes a considerable time to observe.

Worried about the soaring energy prices, Tras promised that he would immediately freeze the upper limit of the family energy price that was adjusted once a quarter, and it was not allowed to be raised within 12 months. At the same time Further subsidize the people, so that British families can survive this almost destined cold winter. But whether this policy can be landed is not even what the British government can determine. If Russia further reduces production and natural gas, and international gas prices refresh their highs again, Tras' policy is likely to lead to a serious shortage of British natural gas supply. It is by no means a good idea to make people nationwide make a choice between high bills and frozen.

As for Britain's diplomatic orientation, it is difficult to see that Tellas may make fundamental adjustments to the policy of the Johnson government. As NATO's anchor in Europe, Britain now clearly chooses to keep up with the United States' foreign strategy to Russia and China. Adopting a tough position for different ideological countries should still be the main tone of Tellas.

There are family backgrounds and growth environments of Digital Conservative Prime Ministers and senior politicians, which are very different from the previously -digital Conservative Prime Minister and high -level politicians. She supports liberal economy and markets, dislikes in organizationalism, opposite status politics, and pursuit of values. In terms of British political spectrum, she is a believer in Sachelism. This is not an exaggeration. However, as the third female prime minister in the UK, Tellas faced the complex situation at the moment. It is not the same as Sachel and Teresa May. She copied Mrs. Sachel's influence on British politics and even British society. To observe whether the newly helm of the British government is capable of leading the Conservative Party and the entire country to drive out of the storm, it depends on the candidates of Tellas's next cabinet, as well as the results of her ruling and measures in the early days of her ruling.

(The author is a political commentator, a doctoral candidate for the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University)

Author: Qu Fanfu

Edit: Xu Fangqing

Operation editor: Wang Lin

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