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Foreign minister beats rival ex-treasury chief Rishi Sunak in party member vote; Queen Elizabeth to formally name her as PM on Tuesday

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak will be announced the new leader of the United Kingdom.

Liz Truss travels to Scotland on Tuesday to formalise her accession to Downing Street with Queen Elizabeth II. Hawkishness on Russia and China characterises the next British PM’s foreign policy agenda…

The UK's next prime minister, Liz Truss, takes power as a traditional, low-tax Conservative eurosceptic promising to turbo-charge economic growth.

Truss, 47, has described her ascent towards the top of British politics as a "journey" that has seen her criticised for being ambitiously opportunistic.

Liz Truss has been elected as the Conservative Party's new leader, the party announced Monday, and she thus will become Britain's new prime minister as the country faces an acute cost-of-living crisis.

The UK's next prime minister, Liz Truss, takes power as a traditional, low-tax Conservative eurosceptic promising to turbo-charge economic growth. Her position

Liz Truss, 47, campaigned on a platform of slashing taxes and bulldozing bureaucratic "orthodoxy", particularly in the finance ministry where she once worked.

Truss beat former finance minister Rishi Sunak to be elected leader of the ruling Conservative Party on Monday. She inherits a country facing a dire winter energy crisis, widespread strikes and economic recession. Truss will be Britain's next...

Ms. Truss, who prevailed over Rishi Sunak, will be greeted by an array of vexing problems, including double-digit inflation, a looming recession, labor unrest and soaring household energy bills.