BREAKING: Liz Truss has won the race to be the United Kingdom's new prime minister, beating out Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party's leadership ballot. 9News FULL DETAILS:
Truss, who was foreign secretary under former prime minister, had been widely tipped to win the ballot ahead of ex-treasury chief Sunak after winning the support of many Tories with her Thatcherite zeal to roll back state intervention and slash taxes.
"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.Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary react to the announcement. The two-month leadership contest left Britain with a power vacuum at a time of growing discontent across the country amid spiralling energy and food costs., and officials insisted that measures to address the energy cost crisis would be deferred until his successor is in place.Meanwhile tens of thousands of workers have gone on strike to demand better pay to keep up with relentlessly rising costs.
"We've had far more from the latest prime minister about cuts to corporation tax over the summer than we have about the cost of living crisis, the single most important thing is bearing down on so many millions of households," Opposition Leader Keir Starmer said, after the announcement.Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pledged to look past political differences to develop a good working relationship.
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