Great Britain: That’s what newspapers write about the resignation of Liz Truss

After the resignation of the British Prime Minister Liz Truss, it is eagerly awaited who can apply to succeed her. Within the Conservative Party, a dispute over the candidacy of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is emerging. The favorites to succeed Truss are currently former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Penny Mordaunt, as well as Interior Minister Suella Braverman from the right-wing conservative camp, who resigned on Wednesday. But are the Tories still able to master the crisis in Great Britain?

This is how the international media commented on the Truss resignation:

Great Britain

“Financial Times”, London:

“In the short six weeks of Liz Truss’ tenure, not only has Britain’s economic standing been ruined, but also its reputation for political stability. (…) The Tory party has proved inept, torn by factional infighting, contemptible against the rule of law and as a party without convincing economic ideas. The only thing that unites Conservative MPs is the fear of a general election. This fear is justified, as the damage caused by the last two governments is clearly reflected in the polls . The Tories should not be allowed to continue unless they win a new mandate from the electorate. The British people – and not MPs or the 170,000 members of the Conservative Party – must decide their political future now.”

“The Guardian”, London:

“It is entirely possible that the Tory party will impose a Truss 2.0 on the country within the next week. Such an outcome would be terrible for the Tory party and for British democracy, and it would be disastrous for Britain. The party would become unleadable and the country could appear ungovernable. Markets could be scared again, especially if there were another change of finance minister. But it would be the populace, already struggling with costs and budgets, that would suffer the most, while the number of those looking to are dependent on food donations has reached a record level, which is why the real solution to the Tories’ crisis is a general election, sooner rather than later Only a new government with a new mandate can give the British people the fresh start they need and deserve. “

“The Telegraph”, London:

“Your analysis of the country’s problems was correct: Years of low productivity and high taxes have stifled entrepreneurship and constrained growth, without which the public services on which the public increasingly wants to spend cannot be funded. (…) The Prime Minister’s ouster does nothing to change the grim economic realities Liz Truss had to grapple with last week after she appointed Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has almost completely dismantled her growth strategy, yet she will succeed decades of managing the decline He or she will have to prepare the country for the shock of living within its means in the future – something the Labor Party is ill equipped to do, despite Sir Keir Starmer’s call for general elections.”

Germany

“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, Frankfurt:

“Liz Truss talked a lot about her ‘mandate’. Admittedly, only a good 80,000 Tory members had given her that. Even at the party’s grassroots level, she had received the narrowest possible majority. To derive a mandate for a radical change of course from this was presumptuous and daring. The same applies to the attempt to simply continue to govern after she had called off the promised tax cuts and promised the British painful burdens in return. There was no way around resigning.”

“Süddeutsche Zeitung”, Munich:

“Tens of thousands will die of cold death in their homes this winter. Others will starve in order not to freeze. Much of this, above all the gas prices, cannot be attributed to Liz Truss, even with good approaches some things could not have been prevented and Truss had bad ones Approaches Nevertheless, there is no longer any joy when a Tory boss leaves again.

Minutes after Truss’ resignation, opposition leader Keir Starmer called for new elections to be held after 12 years of Tory misery, given the chaotic governance. There will be people who think that everything will be better then. I wish they are finally right.”

“The World”, Berlin:

“The truth is that the Tory Party’s Brexit ideology is hollow. It’s a handful of clever slogans that, unfortunately for the British nation, have lingered for too long. Liz Truss’s spectacular failure is the clearest example of this.”

United States

“Wall Street Journal”, New York:

“Truss resigned as Prime Minister on Thursday after her tenure was a fiasco, but the blame is far from hers alone. She is being made the scapegoat for the economic policy blunders made by the ruling Conservatives in 12 years in power, especially since 2019 under the previous Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (…)

Truss certainly mismanaged the introduction of their measures. (…) But Truss didn’t cause Britain’s inflation rate of 10.1 per cent (the Bank of England is to blame for that), it didn’t trigger energy shortages or price hikes (the last two Prime Ministers are responsible for that), and it has not failed to monitor pensions so that they do not play for higher returns. All of that was underway before she took office. (…)”

“Washington Post”, Washington DC:

“Britain has fallen behind as a major international player – as a leading power in Europe and as a reliable diplomatic and military partner with a competent government and liberal democratic values. Now the country is increasingly looking like an isolated island nation in the Atlantic. Much of its ills are self-inflicted . Other countries can learn lessons about the dangers of populist politics. (…)

The 2016 decision by British voters to leave the EU – known as Brexit – ushered in a chaotic political era marked by a succession of bad leaders: the weak Theresa May, the clownish Boris Johnson and the incompetent Ms. Truss. (…)

Polls indicate that the British public favors a softer Brexit (…). It is in Britain’s and Europe’s interests to strive for one. (…)

Britain should be more than an exporter of royal gossip and inflammatory political news. The US and Europe should help Britain regain its place in a liberal world order under attack from Russia, China and other opponents of freedom.”

Denmark

“Jyllands Posten”, Aarhus:

“With the departure of Liz Truss, Britain will now have its third prime minister in two months unless the meltdown in the ruling Conservative party is so irreversible that it ends in general elections. The Conservatives continue to hold a large majority in the House of Commons, and if they can agree on a candidate without a campaign, a new prime minister could be in office within a week. But who can unite the notoriously divided ruling party? The knives are loose in Churchill’s old party, they always aim for the nearest back, what the “The true tragedy of Britain. After six years of turmoil and at times anarchy, Britain needs political calm and a unifying figure as head of government – if one can be found.”

France

“Le Figaro”, Paris:

“Can the world’s sixth largest economy, which is at the end of its tether two years and three prime ministers after Brexit went through, emerge from this downward spiral? The Tories are pledging to elect a new leader within a week, raising the options for an intra-party power struggle (Ex-Prime Minister) Boris Johnson, who was the last to be elected in 2019, is now dreaming of a Churchillian comeback in the name of ‘the national interest.’ Will MPs forget how they ousted him less than four months ago? The British nervous breakdown isn’t over yet, but ‘the show must go on!'”

Switzerland

“NZZ”, Zurich:

“Truss had tried to impose a well-intentioned, radical reform program on Great Britain at the wrong time with the wrong means. She didn’t have the necessary support for this either in Parliament, in the population or in business. The Conservative faction in the House of Commons brusquely stopped her and made the mistake her election as party leader corrected in record time. (…)

The first step is done. The second, more difficult, is to follow in the next seven days: who can unite the divided party behind them and quickly lead the country back onto secure economic grounds? (…) It is a completely different matter how the parliamentary group and party intend to take the third and most difficult step that lies ahead of them: what do the Tories actually want to achieve for Great Britain? What Britain do you want to shape? The next Conservative Prime Minister will face the same problem. Even if all the sweet promises made by the Brexit hardliners have not yet been fulfilled and disillusionment is spreading in many cases – leaving the EU is a fact. What is needed now is politicians to develop and implement a realistic and attractive vision for Britain.”

Spain

“El Mundo”; Madrid:

“Six years after the Brexit referendum, Britain is witnessing the implosion of the Conservative Party. The Tories’ obsession with this detached fantasies of inexperienced politicians, whose sole basis are crude anti-European slogans, has proved the nail in the party’s coffin and turned the country into an economic one driven by chaos and increasing isolation.

Brexit has become such an empty and obsessive mantra that it has eroded the party’s foundations and buried the last three prime ministers: neither Theresa May, nor Boris Johnson, nor Liz Truss were able to do what left the European Union Union to keep promises of a prosperous independence from Brussels. Instead, Brexit became a curse.

Whoever succeeds Truss risks burning out just as quickly as she does unless Brexit is finally recognized for what it is: a failed project that has badly hurt the Tories and left the UK in a coma. “

Czech Republic

“Lidove noviny”, Prague:

“Politicians don’t usually go under because they make a mistake. What matters is how they deal with that mistake. Liz Truss’ catastrophic mistake was to make a total U-turn. Instead of making any corrections to her ‘mini budget’ consisting mostly of tax cuts and a commitment to fiscal sustainability, she did a 180-degree turn, throwing out her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, showing everyone that she didn’t care about her own beliefs, her constituents, or her can remain true to one’s own wing of the party.”