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Liz Truss becomes UK Prime minister after winning party vote

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In this file photo taken on July 28, 2022 Contender to become the country’s next Prime minister and leader of the Conservative party British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (L) is welcomed by Britain’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education Andrea Jenkyns (R) for a campaign event in Leeds. . (Photo by Ian Forsyth / POOL / AFP)

Liz Truss was on Monday announced as the UK’s next prime minister, after winning an internal leadership contest of the ruling Conservative party.

The foreign secretary beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, 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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