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Liz Truss is to be the next UK Prime Minister,replacing Boris Johnson and defeating Rishi Sunak to become the third woman to hold the office.

Her insistence on the campaign trail that she will lower taxes was met with heavy doses of skepticism at a time when the economy is struggling so much, and she is likely to set out an economic plan later this week. “We need to show we will deliver, bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy.” She takes up the role at a time of national crisis, with energy bills skyrocketing and the economy on the verge of recession.

Lagatar24 Desk. New Delhi, Sept 5: UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has defeated Rishi Sunak on Monday to be the new Prime Minister of Britain.

Over that time, the country has been tossed from crisis to crisis, and it now faces what is expected to be a long recession caused by skyrocketing inflation, which reached 10.1% in July. [Lagatar ](https://lagatar24.com)Android App . (5 p.m.

UK foreign secretary Liz Truss defeated Indian-origin former chancellor Rishi Sunak to be named the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest on ...

Truss' campaign pledge to reverse Sunak's tax hike plans while he was Chancellor to tackle the cost-of-living crisis facing the country seems to have worked in favour. She is the third female Prime Minister in Britain, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May. UK foreign secretary Liz Truss defeated Indian-origin former chancellor Rishi Sunak to be named the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest on Monday and will now go on to formally take charge as British Prime Minister as Boris Johnson's successor.

Ex-chancellor is the latest charismatic Conservative Party leadership dead cert who failed to gain the ultimate prize.

The fact they were taking a bet on the likely winner and the person who would have it in their gift to give them a job was not mentioned. The sense of his isolation was not aided by ministers lining up one by one to declare their support for Ms Truss. He appealed, despite being a Brexiteer, to the Remainers (it’s a curiosity how Ms Truss and Mr Sunak’s EU positions played out, she a Remainer wooing the Brexiteers, he a Brexiteer winning the approval of the Remainers). He did well with the MPs, ahead with them by a mile, but they were not the ones making the selection. It did not assist Mr Sunak’s cause that the right-wing press were against him. They liked Mr Sunak, did not mind his penchant for designer clothes and were admiring of his top-drawer education and investment banking credentials. He was viewed as someone critically who still retains enormous affection and popularity among the rump of Tories not so exercised by breaches of, as they see them, arcane parliamentary rules. He was seen by the party faithful, those who were voting, as too brainy, too quick and smart. Yes, Ms Truss was a Remainer, but from the off, and even before the race began, she cloaked herself in the Union Jack, constantly photographed alongside the flag. He committed the cardinal sin of any elected politician — of not paying due heed to his electorate. She was a makeweight, who moved from state post to post without making a mark. His popularity shimmered like a risen souffle at a time of crisis for the nation.

His rapid ascent to chancellor just weeks before the pandemic put Rishi Sunak front and centre in British politics. Until earlier this year he was the ...

After a summer of bruising blue on blue, could the Californian beaches be waiting for the man who was nearly prime minister? The Tories may have a big majority, but significantly more MPs wanted Rishi Sunak to be prime minister, and they have the potential to make life difficult for Liz Truss. In an interview with the FT he said: "I'm not planning on leaving politics". From Ted Heath to John Redwood and David Davis, former leadership rivals have proven to be a thorny presence on the backbenches. There are now likely to be several big political beasts on the backbenches - including Dominic Raab and Michael Gove - who have not been shy about criticising the new prime minister. He told BBC Radio 2: "One thing I have reflected on a bit being in government and cabinet [is] you really need to agree on the big things because it's tough I found if you don't, I wouldn't want to get into a situation like that again."

The former chancellor was more specific in providing economic solutions but his privileged background and his weak political team were handicaps.

There are even reports that MPs who support him are thinking of triggering a new leadership crisis before the end of the year. But, given the scale of the immediate crises, he can console himself with the thought that the prime minister’s post might be up for grabs again in two years’ time. She traded heavily on her apparently poor northern childhood roots in order to distinguish herself both from Sunak’s childhood in Hampshire, a well-off county in the south, and from his immense wealth. Foreign policy issues include Ukraine, where Johnson – backed by Truss as foreign secretary – led the toughest response to the Russian invasion, and the West’s simmering confrontation with China. She quite quickly gained personal confidence, keeping the debate focussed on her popular tax cuts and rejecting interventionist policies that she is now likely to announce. [trade union strikes](https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-going-on-strike-in-august-and-september-and-for-how-long-12668354) since the 1970s. Sunak’s defeat compares with the voting among Conservative MPs in July where he led Truss with 137 votes to her 113. Meanwhile, the government became sterile and Johnson enjoyed his final weeks in power with jaunts that included flying in a jet fighter, joining a dawn police raid, and announcing distant nuclear power plans. It far exceeds the 15% of the UK population who come from a minority ethnic background, while in parliament there are Then there was the issue of his immense family wealth totalling some £730m, mainly stemming from his wife Akshata – daughter of Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys, one of India’s three leading IT companies. He knew exactly how to run the country during an economic crisis and had an answer to every contingency, something Truss carefully avoided. It looks likely that there will be an historic mix of ethnic backgrounds in Truss’s cabinet.

Defeated rival will not feature in line-up expected to include Kwarteng, Braverman and Cleverly in top jobs.

Mordaunt is also reported to have rejected the role. The veteran MP John Redwood is said by friends to be minded to turn down a junior Treasury role. Senior Tories have warned there is a pressing need to unite the party in the post-Boris Johnson era, though Truss is keener to prioritise loyalty. “Britain has had to maintain safe pairs of hands in defence and security and he told her that,” one ally said. Should Dorries stay in post, Truss is likely to demand a watering-down of her landmark online safety bill, which could become a bone of contention. Kwasi Kwarteng, Truss’s closest cabinet ally, will become her chancellor and she is also expected to confirm the appointments of Suella Braverman as home secretary and James Cleverly as foreign secretary.

The Guardian understands he told party donors at an event the day before voting closed last week that he would remain in frontline politics regardless of the ...

“If we lose, the party will have to face up to reality and should be more willing to listen to his hard truths.” During the campaign, he claimed her tax cuts would [fuel inflation](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/22/truss-poised-to-plunge-uk-economy-into-inflation-spiral-says-sunak) and benefit the better-off. “He could hang around until when the next election is called and see which way the wind is blowing,” they said. Nevertheless, they realise Boris Johnson could also be weighing up [another run](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/29/boris-johnson-wants-to-do-a-berlusconi-back-to-power-says-rory-stewart) for the top job. [will not](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/05/liz-truss-will-not-offer-rishi-sunak-a-job-in-her-new-cabinet) be offered a cabinet job after he [declined to say](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/24/rishi-sunak-hails-margaret-thatcher-influence-tory-leadership) last month whether he would vote for an emergency Truss budget.

'I will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people's energy bills, but also dealing with the long term issues we have on energy supply,' Truss said ...

As we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content. Business Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. First, she will turn to the urgent issue of surging energy prices. Over that period the country has been buffeted from crisis to crisis, and now faces what is forecast to be a long recession triggered by sky-rocketing inflation which hit 10.1% in July. Truss will follow him and be asked to form a government by the monarch. I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy," Truss said after the result was announced.

Rishi Sunak on Monday asked the Conservative Party members to unite behind the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Liz Truss, minutes after she defeated ...

"I've said throughout that the Conservatives are one family. It's right we now unite behind the new PM, Liz Truss, as she steers the country through difficult times," the British Indian former Chancellor tweeted. Rishi Sunak on Monday asked the Conservative Party members to unite behind the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Liz Truss, minutes after she defeated him in the leadership contest to succeed Boris Johnson, to steer the country through difficult times.

Ms Truss had sat a seat away from her opponent at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster as the prolonged and 'hard fought' leadership contest reached its ...

If this is an example of the kind of grudges she holds, I don’t think it’ll be good for her image. ‘There’s a particular pressure on women not to show excessive emotion. The new prime minister will then meet Mr Johnson for a handover of power and address the country later in the evening to thank Tory party members for voting for her and set out her hopes for her term in power. Ms Truss will become the 15th prime minister during the Queen’s 70-year reign and the first appointed in Scotland instead of London. Ms Truss, who is currently the foreign secretary, will travel to Balmoral tomorrow where she will meet the Queen and be asked to form a government and become prime minister. Mr Johnson will formally resign and have his own audience with Her Majesty, 96, at the castle in Royal Deeside ahead of the engagement. ‘It was a real moment of glee and when she got up she absorbed the applause but she also knew when to pause it, which was her first strong non-verbal move after becoming the new Conservative Party leader. Only then did she ‘pay tribute’ to her ‘fellow candidates, particularly Mr Sunak’ for a ‘hard-fought campaign’ that she said showed the depth of talent in the party. On Sunday, Ms Truss told the BBC that she was ‘not a quitter’, something that her rival could be accused of after he stepped down as Chancellor and set the dominoes rolling on Boris Johnson’s time in No10. For his part, Mr Sunak described his adversary’s economic approach, including tax cuts, as a ‘gamble’ on the nation’s finances and accused her of ‘starry-eyed boosterism’. The pair also clashed over how to deal with the cost of living crisis, with Ms Truss accusing her fellow candidate of ‘Gordon Brown economics’. [Liz Truss](https://metro.co.uk/tag/liz-truss/?ico=auto_link_news_P1_LNK1) ‘should have been the bigger person’ and acknowledged [Rishi Sunak](https://metro.co.uk/tag/rishi-sunak/?ico=auto_link_news_P1_LNK2) as she became leader of the [Conservative Party](https://metro.co.uk/tag/conservative-party/?ico=auto_link_news_P1_LNK3), a business psychologist has said.

The winner of the Tory leadership contest is revealed later - before becoming PM on Tuesday.

And the stakes are high, for voters are worried about their bills most of all. But also for the Conservative Party, worried about its future. [travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62728328) to be appointed by the Queen, rather than at Buckingham Palace. That will include tax cuts and help for families and businesses. The original field of 11 contenders was whittled down to two in a series of Tory MP ballots, with the final pair going into a run-off to be decided by the membership, which stands at about 160,000. Mr Johnson was forced out in July by a ministerial revolt over a string of scandals, just over two-and-a-half years after leading the Tories to a landslide victory at the 2019 election. Ms Truss did not rule out a freeze on Sunday but has previously described the idea as a "sticking plaster" and argues more needs to be done to help the UK boost its domestic sources of energy. She said any further support would have to go "hand in hand" with efforts to boost nuclear energy, fracking for shale gas and more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. On Sunday the foreign secretary declined to say whether further help would be universal or targeted at the most needy, saying she would need time in office to iron out the details of her plan. After weeks of talking to Conservative members, the new prime minister will have to start talking to the country immediately. Ms Truss is yet to offer details of her cost-of-living support plan beyond saying she will temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills and reverse the rise in National Insurance introduced during Mr Johnson's tenure. BBC News has been told that a menu of options has been worked up in Whitehall to help struggling households, including a freeze on energy bills.

Soon after Liz Truss was declared the winner of the Conservative leadership race, the newly-elected prime minister walked past his rival and fellow party ...

I think we have shown the depth and breadth of talent in our Conservative Party." "I would like to pay my respects to my Tory leadership rival candidates, especially Rishi Sunak. I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy.

Liz Truss, who is set to take over as Britain's Prime Minister, will not offer former finance minister and her leadership contest rival Rishi Sunak a role ...

Within hours of Truss being named winner of the contest, Priti Patel said she would step down as home secretary. Sunak said earlier in the day that he would not accept a ministerial job from Truss, reiterating a suggestion he has made during the Conservative Party leadership campaign that kicked off in July when Johnson was forced to step down from the role. "It is just not something I'm thinking about," Sunak told the BBC when asked if he would accept a ministerial job from Truss, who had a smaller margin of victory in the contest than any of her predecessors.

Britain's Rishi Sunak, who lost the race to become Britain's prime minister on Monday, said the party must now unite behind winner Liz Truss.

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Rishi Sunak Loses UK PM Race: Rishi Sunak has been a MP for Richmond (Yorks) in North Yorkshire since 2015. On his future plans, he said his constituency ...

One of the two suspects in a stabbing spree in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan early on Sunday morning, has been discovered dead while police continue the manhunt for a second person. Sunak has been a MP for Richmond (Yorks) in North Yorkshire since 2015. The Chinese government reacted furiously to the release of a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 31 August, calling it "wholly illegal and invalid". Rishi Sunak Loses UK PM Race: Rishi Sunak has been a MP for Richmond (Yorks) in North Yorkshire since 2015. A 27-year-old data analyst clad in a sari, Aruna Chida turned to Morimoto for companionship. He said he would support the government headed by his rival but also that he is unlikely to serve in the cabinet.

Leftists 'celebrate' Rishi Sunak losing the British PM race, use Hinduphobic tweets to mock him for temple visit and Gau Puja ... On August 5 (local time), Rishi ...

Sunak was heavily trolled on social media for following Hindu customs. [https://t.co/xXtZkYy1ab] [September 5, 2022] [https://t.co/qrdODiI8yx] [September 5, 2022] Despite all these antics Rishi Sunak was soundly defeated by Liz Truss and she becomes the new UK PM. ‘Professor’ Ashok Swain, a fake news peddler who is known for his anti-India rhetoric and Hinduphobia, said, “Despite all these antics, Rishi Sunak was soundly defeated by Liz Truss, and she becomes the new UK PM. [lost ](https://www.opindia.com/2022/09/liz-truss-uk-prime-minister-rishi-sunak/)the election to become the conservative party’s PM face to Mary Elizabeth Truss, who has been serving as the Foreign Secretary since 2021.

Within hours of Truss being named winner of the contest, Priti Patel said she would step down as home secretary.

Within hours of Truss being named winner of the contest, Priti Patel said she would step down as home secretary. Sunak said earlier in the day that he would not accept a ministerial job from Truss, reiterating a suggestion he has made during the Conservative Party leadership campaign that kicked off in July when Johnson was forced to step down from the role. “It is just not something I’m thinking about,” Sunak told the BBC when asked if he would accept a ministerial job from Truss, who had a smaller margin of victory in the contest than any of her predecessors.