The United Kingdom, UK, has announced Liz Truss as the new Prime Minister on Monday.
She defeated Rishi Sunak to be the new Prime Minister of Britain. She beat her rival by 81,326 votes to 60,399, after a summer-long internal contest sparked by Boris Johnson’s resignation in July.
Before her emergence as PM, Truss was the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.
Long the front-runner in the race to replace Johnson, Truss will become the Conservatives’ fourth prime minister since a 2015 election. Over that period the country has been buffeted from crisis to crisis, and now faces what is forecast to be a long recession triggered by sky-rocketing inflation which hit 10.1 per cent in July.
Boris Johnson was forced to announce his resignation in July after months of scandal and he will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday to officially tender his resignation. His successor will follow him and be asked to form a government.
SHE IS NOT NEW TO POLITICS AND ITS INTRIGUES AS SHE HAS BEEN IN THE UNCHARTED WATERS.
However, the new office with role is a new frontier for more challenging and demanding attention.
CONGRATULTIONS Lizzy!