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Liz Truss has been elected as the new Prime Minister of United Kingdom after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest. It was a closer result than many pundits expected, with Truss taking 57% of valid votes cast.
Britain’s Conservative Party announced Monday that Foreign Secretary Liz Truss emerged from the party’s voting as the leader of the Conservative Party and the new prime minister.
Truss and former Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak had been vying for the top spot in the party.
Speaking at a conference centre in Westminster, she thanked Sunak for a “hard-fought campaign” and pledged to deliver a “bold plan”
Truss will become prime minister on Tuesday after travelling to meet the Queen at Balmoral in Scotland
The current foreign secretary is under immediate pressure to announce a plan to tackle soaring energy costs
She is understood to be considering a freeze on energy bills, with an announcement potentially scheduled for Thursday
Labour’s Keir Starmer has congratulated her but says the country is facing a “Tory cost of living crisis”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in July he was stepping down after his government was awash in scandals, such as violating some of his own government’s COVID-19 lockdown rules.