According to British newspaper The GuardianThe wife of former minister Johnny Mercer has called the UK’s new prime minister a “scoundrel” in response to her husband’s failure to make the transition to the new administration.
Felicity Cornelius-Mercer took to her Twitter account to say that the UK cabinet equivalent of the Portuguese cabinet “stinks” and that it “treats people badly” and was fired by the “best person” she knew. A fool”.
With Johnny Mercer, Minister for Veterans Affairs during Boris Johnson’s government, and the executive government that succeeded him with the resignation of the Prime Minister, Liz Truss is at risk of not being part of his team selections.
Liz Truss was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government after accepting the resignation of Boris Johnson this Tuesday. After a while, the appointments of some of his accompanying ministers continued.
Felicity Cornelius-Mercer’s spoof – with a collection of truss with one of the Muppet characters Beaker’s head – also refers to promises of merit allegedly betrayed by the new prime minister.
Referring to a conversation between Mercer and Truss, the former minister’s wife writes: “He asked her, ‘Why did you do this to me, who would be better than me in these roles, with which of your friends. position, did you promise a qualification?”’, to which the Prime Minister replied, ” I can’t answer that, Johnny,” he reportedly replied.
Johnny Mercer, a deputy in the House of Commons, said he was “disappointed” with Trudeau’s decision, but accepted the prime minister was “right to reward his supporters”.
So far, Downing Street has announced three ministerial appointments to key posts, some of them from minorities, but above all identified with their extreme liberal and conservative positions.
Fighting inflation will be in the hands of Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng, 47, the son of immigrants from Ghana who came to the UK in the 1960s. 53, whose mother is from Sierra Leone.
The interior ministry has been handed over to Suella Braverman, a 42-year-old former lawyer who will be in charge of the sensitive case of illegal immigrants who want to be deported to Rwanda – a position Truss will succeed.
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