Britain's New Prime Minister Has A $150 Billion Plan To Freeze Energy Bills

Liz Truss, the Conservative candidate who won the race to be the UK’s next prime minister, has been considering plans in recent days to spend $150 billion (£130 billion) over the next year and a half to freeze household energy bills at their current levels, officials and advisers to Truss have told Bloomberg. Truss, announced on Monday as the winner of the Tory election to succeed Boris Johnson, will travel to Balmoral on Tuesday to be officially appointed as prime minister by Queen Elizabeth II.   As the energy and cost-of-living…