Foreign Secretary Liz Truss won the Conservative Party leadership election on Monday, so she will succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, the party board responsible for the process, said Truss received 81,326 votes out of 180,000 grassroots votes, while his rival Rishi Sunak, the former finance minister, received 60,399 votes.
The result was expected and confirms the advantage recorded in several opinion polls published since July.
Truss, 47, will be Britain’s third female prime minister after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, and the fourth female politician to hold this position in six years.
Boris Johnson will notify Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday of his resignation and King will nominate Liz Truss and ask her to form a government as party leader with a parliamentary majority.
The hearings will take place at Balmoral Castle, in northern Scotland, where the Queen is currently staying, breaking with a tradition of holding hearings at Buckingham Palace, where a spokesman for the 96-year-old king has spoken of mobility issues to avoid traveling to London. .
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