Liz Truss has been appointed UK’s next Prime Minister — after winning the Conservative Party’s leadership contest on Monday.
She will formally take over after months of scandals plunged Boris Johnson’s administration into crisis and forced him to resign.
Truss will inherit a cost-of-living crisis, the aftershocks of Brexit, a war in Europe and dropping support for the Conservatives in the opinion polls.
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.
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