Liz Truss to be next UK PM after winning party vote

New Conservative Party leader and Britain’s Prime Minister-elect Liz Truss delivers a speech at an event to announce the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest in central London on September 5, 2022. Truss is the UK’s third female prime minister following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. – AFP photo.

Liz Truss was on Monday announced as the United Kingdom’s next prime minister, after winning an internal leadership contest of the ruling Conservative party.

The foreign secretary beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by 81,326 votes to 60,399, after a summer-long internal contest sparked by Boris Johnson’s resignation in July.

AFP