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Will Sanae Takaichi be Japan’s Thatcher, or its Truss?
Recklessness rather than right-wing conservatism could be her undoing.
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Having won the race to head the Liberal Democratic Party, Ms Sanae Takaichi is the presumptive next prime minister of Japan.
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Gearoid Reidy
Japan is set to have its first woman leader in Ms Sanae Takaichi. She wants to become the country’s version of her idol, the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Some fear she might be its Liz Truss.
Having won the race to head the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), she’s the presumptive next prime minister of Japan. But she faces one of the most challenging jobs in politics: reuniting a party in danger of crumbling, tackling voters’ dissatisfaction with inflation, and managing a newly fractious relationship with its security guarantor, the US.
