Liz Truss succeeds Boris Johnson as party leader and UK Prime Minister

A little more than a month into the campaign, with a dozen “hearings”–hearings with members–the decision in the party’s leadership battle finally came just after 1:30 p.m. on Monday.

“Liz Truss got 81,326 votes, while Rishi Sunak got 60,399. That’s why Liz Truss was elected party leader,” said Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee of the Conservative Group of Parliament.

The message was expected. Former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has been fighting an uphill battle all summer. Not least because he had a hard time getting off the label as the one who “betrayed” Boris Johnson by defecting from the government.

On the other hand, Secretary of State Liz Truss has remained loyal to Johnson through all the scandals, and according to consistent media reports, the outgoing prime minister is happy with the choice.

Truss also has a different view of economic policy than Sunak. Britain is heading into a recession, and Gears has pushed the line that in the current situation you should “keep going gas”, rather than being careful, Sunak claimed.

It wants to cut a raft of taxes – everything from corporate tax and income tax to value-added tax on electricity and fuel – to stimulate the economy.

Rishi Sunak warned that this could undermine the British government’s public finances and make it impossible to support the millions of Britons who could find themselves in dire financial straits this winter. But Liz Truss’ optimistic “reinforcement” appears to have gone well with the party’s 172,000 members, who made the decision via online and postal voting.

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss On Tuesday they will travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where they will be received by Queen Elizabeth. Johnson would resign, at which point Truss would formally request the Queen’s mandate to form a government.

Later in the day, Truss is expected to give a speech in the yard outside 10 Downing Street.

After that, the names of the new ministers in the government will be announced. But many of the names have already been leaked to the British press. There are many indications that Kwasi Quarting will be the new Treasury Secretary, while James Cleverly is the preferred candidate for Secretary of State.

However, many other big names, such as Priti Patel, Dominic Raab and Michael Gove, are at risk of losing ministerial positions, according to these initial media reports.

The first major challenge will be energy prices. Liz Truss promised to move against them within a week. Over the weekend, information emerged that it was considering freezing electricity prices at today’s levels, which the opposition Labor Party proposed earlier this summer – but then rejected by Truss.

47-year-old Liz Truss is a seasoned politician, but she wasn’t quite as popular as Boris Johnson when he took power. So she’s fighting a real uphill battle when it comes to winning the public’s trust. In a new poll, 65 per cent said they don’t understand how ordinary Brits feel.