Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader.
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister.
Truss’s selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in which only the 180,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak, the government’s former treasury chief, by promising to increase defense spending and cut taxes, while refusing to say how she would address the cost-of-living crisis.
A mural showing the two Conservative leadership contestants Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss on a wall in Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. The two-month leadership contest left Britain with a power vacuum at a time when consumers, workers and businesses were demanding government action to mitigate the impact of soaring food and energy prices.
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