Liz Truss beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by 81,326 votes to 60,399.
New Delhi:
Liz Truss has defeated Rishi Sunak to be the new Prime Minister of Britain after winning an internal leadership contest of the ruling Conservative party. 47-year-old Liz Truss will become the third female prime minister of the UK.
Here are 5 things she said after the announcement:
- I am grateful for your support. It has been a hard-fought contest. The contest has shown the breadth and depth of talent in the Conservative party. I would like to thank Rishi Sunak.
- I also want to thank our outgoing leader, my friend, Boris Johnson. Boris, you got Brexit done. You crushed Jeremy Corbyn. You rolled out the vaccine, and you stood up to Vladimir Putin. You are admired from Kyiv to Carlisle.
- During this leadership campaign, I campaigned as a Conservative and I will govern as a conservative. And my friends, we need to show that we will deliver over the next two years.
- 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. And I will deliver on the National Health Service.
- But we all will deliver for our country. And I will make sure that we use all the fantastic talents of the Conservative party, our brilliant members of parliament and peers, our fantastic counsellors, our MSs, our MSPs, all of our councillors and activists and members right across our country. Because, my friends, I know that we will deliver, we will deliver, and we will deliver.
