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Liz Truss wins Conservative Party leadership race in U.K., will be next Prime Minister [1]
['Rob Beschizza']
Date: 2022-09-05
Liz Truss has won the U.K. Conservatives' internal leadership ballot and will become Prime Minister tomorrow. Her win over rival Rishi Sunak, though, turned out to be much closer than the wipeout that early polls had expected—the closest Conservative leadership election this century, in fact. This might suggest that the abstract idea of a young right-wing leader is more appealing to party members than the concrete reality of Liz Truss in the news every day.
I am honoured to be elected Leader of the Conservative Party.
Thank you for putting your trust in me to lead and deliver for our great country.
I will take bold action to get all of us through these tough times, grow our economy, and unleash the United Kingdom's potential. pic.twitter.com/xCGGTJzjqb — Liz Truss (@trussliz) September 5, 2022
The government, of which she was a part and now leads, is unpopular, trailing the Labour party by 15 points in a new YouGov poll which also sees the Liberal Democrats at 11% and the Greens at 7%. But Truss still has the commanding parliamentary majority won by Boris Johnson in 2019, and three years to turn things around before she must call a general election.
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