Newly elected chief minister Lyndon Trott gets a call from home and breaks the news. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0573192)

A NEW era of open and cohesive government lies ahead if new chief minister Lyndon Trott gets his way. Deputy Trott said that the fact he was chief minister would take a while to register.

‘It’s a huge honour and immense privilege to be elected chief minister of the island I love so much. For me it’s been quite an incredible journey from the days when I was a non-States member on Sea Fisheries through my time as a member of the Board of Administration and Board of Industry, under the extremely competent former deputy Roger Berry, through to the events of four years ago when I was elected the island’s first Treasury minister.’

Deputy Trott, 43, believes that the next four years should not see the factions that occurred in the previous term. ‘We had a range of issues that were the most far-reaching, the most significant that any States had had to deal with, in particular the financial and economic reform package I was so closely involved with,’ he said.