LONDON (Reuters) – British overseas minister Liz Truss mentioned on Sunday she would set out quick motion to sort out rising power payments and improve power provides if she is, as anticipated, appointed prime minister this week.

Writing within the Sunday Telegraph newspaper on the eve of the announcement on who will change Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Truss repeated her pledge to be daring in tackling Britain’s financial system, which is fighting double-digit inflation and is going through recession.

Saying she understood “how difficult the price of residing disaster is for everybody”, Truss wrote that she would take “decisive motion to make sure households and companies can get by way of this winter and the subsequent”.

“If elected, I plan inside the first week of my new administration to set out our quick motion on power payments and power provide,” she wrote.

“A fiscal occasion would comply with later this month from my Chancellor, with a broader package deal of motion on the financial system.”

She mentioned her method can be two-fold – quick motion to sort out the price of residing disaster and a plan to ship financial development. She would additionally appoint a Council of Financial Advisers to get “one of the best concepts” on how you can enhance the financial system.

“We have to take the troublesome choices to make sure we aren’t on this place each autumn and winter. Sticking plasters and kicking the can down the highway is not going to do. I’m able to take the powerful choices to rebuild our financial system,” she wrote.

Truss is broadly anticipated to be named as the brand new chief of the governing Conservative Social gathering and thus Britain’s new prime minister on Monday, beating her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak. Johnson was compelled to resign by his personal get together after a collection of scandals.