Conservative lawmaker Liz Truss has won the Tory leadership battle. Now she'll have to go to war.
run against Johnson’s former finance minister Rishi Sunak, Truss secured the top job by beating Sunak by 57 to 43 percent in a vote of 172,000 Conservative party members. It is the third time in just six years that Tory members alone—a tiny fraction of the electorate—have chosen a new leader for the U.K.
The U.K.’s grim cost-of-living crisis—in which red hot inflation, unprecedented energy costs, and food price increases are set to leave millions of Brits cold and hungry when winter hits—will require immediate and drastic action after Johnson has allowed the mounting catastrophe to go distressingly unaddressed in the dying weeks of his premiership.
And Britain’s economic woes have also underpinned huge waves of strikes in vital sectors of the economy. On Monday, trial lawyers in England and Wales began an indefinite walkout over public funding levels, following railroad workers, garbage collectors, and postal staff around the U.K. in paralyzing industrial action.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
'Buckle Up, It's Going to Be a Rough Ride': Far-Right Liz Truss Named New UK Prime MinisterOne critic warns that the Tory former Foreign Secretary \u0022campaigned as a right-wing ideologue and will govern as such—which is a disaster for all of us.\u0022
Read more »
World leaders congratulate next British PM Liz TrussCongratulations sent from across the world after Liz Truss was elected as the Conservative Party's new leader, as she is set to take office on Tuesday as Britain's new prime minister
Read more »