Truss Cabinet diversity 

The UK’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss has assembled her new Cabinet, and for the first time in British history, there are no white men in the four main leadership positions. Host Marco Werman speaks with British writer and political activist Taj Ali about the new Cabinet, its ethnic and gender diversity, and growing criticism that its members are still drawn from the country’s most-privileged ranks.

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