Learning good things.

 "Liz Truss has won the contest to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister." BBC. She beat former Chancellor Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes to 60,399. "Research suggests that, like members of the other major parties, Tories tend to be older, more middle class and more white than the rest of the population." She won using well worn tactics, such as promising to reduce National Insurance contributions while increasing funding to the National Health Service, reducing energy costs and helping people to stay at home to look after children and elderly relatives. Rishi Sunak lost because he was seen as backstabbing previous Prime Minister Boris Johnson by resigning his post, he was considered out of touch because of his wealth and because there were questions about his wife not paying her fair share of taxes in Britain. India Today. Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy, daughter of Infosys founder Narayana Murthy, is said to be worth $1.2 billion which makes her richer than the queen. BS. As a citizen of India, she claims non-domicile status in the UK which legally cuts her tax liability to almost nothing. ET. A majority of members of the Conservative Party did not want Boris Johnson to go and some blame Sunak for his ouster. unherd.com. Truss is the third female prime minister of Britain after Theresa May and her idol Margaret Thatcher and she takes charge at a difficult time. "Britain's slowing economy is poised to enter recession, inflation is at its highest rate in decades and households are facing crippling bills from the war in Ukraine," wrote Max Colchester. "Britain's exit from the European Union has hampered trade with the country's largest trading partner, and immigration restrictions have choked off access to inexpensive European labor." "In the just over two years that Truss has before she must face the British public in a general election, she faces a huge task of turning around a moribund economy beset by rampant inflation, anemic growth and the continuing consequences of Brexit." DW. Trouble with the EU could be a disaster for the economy. "Truss was the driving force behind the highly controversial Northern Ireland Protocol bill", "and has hinted that she could also trigger what is known as Article 16 - a part of the EU-UK Brexit deal which allows the parties to withdraw from the provisions of the protocol." "Either of those moves would lead to a strong EU response and could lead to the bloc placing punitive tariffs on British exports." Sunak was treated badly by the right wing press. The Telegraph. "From the start the right wing press urged Rishi to quit the race because his contest with Truss was lost even before it had begun." "The idea all along had been to stampede Tory party members into believing there was little point in backing a loser." The election of Truss "was inner-party democracy of the sort that rarely translates from theory into practice in India. It was also a reminder of Ambedkar's rationale in rejecting a presidential system." Mint. We should learn from Britain. After all, we have learnt the Sedition Law of the British monarch. Which is like sashtang pranam.