Liz Truss has comfortably won the race to become leader of the Conservative party and on Tuesday will become Britain’s prime minister, facing one of the most daunting economic crises of recent times.
The foreign secretary beat her rival Rishi Sunak, former chancellor, in a ballot of Conservative party members by 81,326 votes to 60,399 — a 57-43 per cent victory — after a bruising seven-week contest to succeed Boris Johnson. The turnout among the 172,437 eligible voters was 82.6 per cent.
Truss will on Tuesday meet the Queen at Balmoral, the monarch’s country estate, and will then immediately return to London to address the nation from Downing Street and announce her cabinet.
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