Liz Truss, the current British Foreign Secretary, has been elected as leader of the Conservative Party and will thus succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The appointment of Truss was announced early Monday afternoon when the result of the vote was announced to some 200,000 Conservative Party members.
She won by 57% against the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak who obtained 43% of the votes.
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Current Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to resign after a series of scandals and will, on Tuesday, hand in his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.
Liz Truss will follow him to become the 15th head of government in the monarch's 70-year reign, before returning to London to deliver her first speech outside 10 Downing Street, form her government and face Labour's leader of the opposition Keir Starmer for the first time in Parliament on Wednesday
