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Liz Truss will become the next prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership contest.

Ms Truss, who was the favourite to win the contest, will succeed Boris Johnson on Tuesday and become the nation's third female leader.

She won by a comfortable majority, though it was tighter than some had expected.

Ms Truss said it is an "honour to be elected" as she thanked her party for organising "one of the longest job interviews in history".

In a short speech after the result was announced, she issued her thanks to the outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson.

"You got Brexit done. You crushed Jeremy Corbyn. You rolled out the vaccine and you stood up to Vladimir Putin," she said.

Mr Johnson, who was forced to announce his resignation after a wave of ministers left his government over a series of controversies, will visit the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland to formally tender his resignation.

Shortly after this, Ms Truss will also meet the Queen, who will invite her to form a government.

Ms Truss is expected to make a speech outside Number 10 once she takes office and will then get to work on appointing her cabinet.

She faces the immediate challenge of coming up with a package of support to help households weather a worsening cost of living crisis driven by soaring energy bills.

Ms Truss reiterated her promise to "deliver a bold plan" to cut taxes and grow the economy.

She said: "I will deliver on the energy crisis dealing with people's energy bills, but also dealing with the long term issues we have on energy supply."

Ms Truss has remained tight-lipped about what kind of support package she might introduce - though speculation is mounting it could be a freeze in the energy price cap.

Mr Sunak and Ms Truss were whittled down to the final two candidates after five rounds of voting by Tory MPs.

The pair went head to head over a summer of hustings and live television debates, during which they clashed repeatedly over their plans for the economy.

Party members had from 1 August to 2 September to cast their votes, which were counted over the weekend.

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2 hours ago, Snow said:

Yassified Boris Johnson.

There's a reason they were dubbing her as the "Continuity candidate"... 

 

I doubt she'll get away as easily though, Boris had delusional confidence and was good at wriggling his way out of things or dodging tough questions. Liz is nowhere near as competent when it comes to public speaking and lacks the whit (at least from a commentating perspective) that Boris has. 

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3 hours ago, Madonna said:

Can the UK please realize that the Conservative party have done nothing but shit for their country so far and stop voting for them?

The UK hasn't voted them in since 2019 and Labour are leading in the polls. This was just a leadership election within a party rather than a general election. 

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Still Conservative party, though so another throwaway.

Yassified Boris Johnson.

There's a reason they were dubbing her as the "Continuity candidate"...    I doubt she'll get away as easily though, Boris had delusional confidence and was good at wriggling his way out of


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