Music and entertainment world reacts to Liz Truss becoming Prime Minister

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Boris Johnson on Tuesday (September 6) and become the nation’s third female leader after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership contest.She won the contest by 81,326 votes (57 per cent) to Sunak’s 60,399 (43 per cent).Truss said it is an “honour to be elected” as she thanked her party for organising “one of the longest job interviews in history”.The new Prime Minister now faces the immediate challenge of coming up with a package of support to households across the country over the current cost of living crisis driven by soaring energy bills.Comedian John Cleese was one of the first to react to her appointment with a mockingly scathing tweet stating: “Liz Truss says that it’s an honour to be elected leader of the Conservative party.

No it isn’t.”Liz Truss says that it's an honour to be elected leader of the Conservative partyNo it isn't— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) September 5, 2022Joe Lycett, who yesterday (September 4) jokingly trolled Liz Truss on a BBC politics show, addressed her victory with a similar sarcastic comment today. “Yes @trussliz absolutely smashed it babe!!!” he quipped.Yes @trussliz absolutely smashed it babe!!!— Joe Lycett (@joelycett) September 5, 2022Comedian Omid Djalili was also scathing in his assessment of the appointment in the wake of the cost of living crisis.“The Tory leadership election was essentially a choice for the party voters between a punch in the throat or an iron bar into the bollocks.

Congratulations Liz Truss,” he wrote.Meanwhile, Mogwai frontman Stuart Braithwaite drew attention to a controversial tweet Truss posted in tribute to sex offender Jimmy Saville following his death in 2011.