Liz Truss named as UK’s third woman prime minister - The foreign secretary comfortably beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, after a gruelling summer-long contest decided by just over 170 000 Conservative members
Britain’s Conservative party Monday announced Liz Truss as its new leader to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson and confront Britain’s deepest economic crisis in decades.
Truss, 47, will be only the UK’s third female prime minister following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. That won warm applause from the Tory faithful present. However, the right-wing ideologue faces a tough task in winning over public opinion. The Times and Daily Telegraph newspapers reported Monday that Truss was considering freezing energy bills for consumers, with the government reimbursing suppliers.
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