Liz Truss is Britain's Next Prime Minister
Liz Truss has been elected as the new leader of the Conservative party and will become Britain's next Prime Minister.
Ms Truss, formerly Boris Johnson’s foreign secretary, won by 57 per cent with 81,326 votes of Conservative Party members to become its leader. Rishi Sunak took 43 per cent with 60,399 votes.
She congratulated her opponent Mr Sunak and hailed Mr Johnson, who she will replace as prime minister on Tuesday.
“Boris: you got Brexit done, you crushed Jeremy Corbyn, you rolled out the vaccine, and you stood up to Vladimir Putin,” Ms Truss said. "I know that our beliefs resonate with the British people; I campaigned as a Conservative and will govern as a Conservative."
Ms Truss will inherit a cost-of-living crisis, the seven-month-long war between Ukraine and Russia and dropping support for the Conservative party in the wake of the scandals that forced Mr Johnson's administration to resign.
The Partygate investigation and then frustration at how Mr Johnson handled a scandal in which his deputy chief whip, Chris Pincher, was accused of sexually assaulting two men led to him losing the support of the ministers in his government.