All India News Coverage [AINC]: UK Foreign Minister Liz Truss has been elected as the next Prime Minister of Britain.
He will also be the leader of the governing Conservative Party.
After the win, she becomes the third female Prime Minister of United Kingdom after Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher.
Liz Truss defeated her rival, former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes to 60,399, after over six-week-long gruelling campaign.
The two contenders have gone through a postal ballot of all the Conservative members, numbering around one lakh sixty thousand Tory electorate to replace the UK's outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Soon after the announcement of her name, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in her speech said, she will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow Britain's economy and they will deliver a great victory for the Conservative Party in 2024.
Boris Johnson was forced to announce his resignation in July this year after months of scandal. Following the announcement, Mr Johnson will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday to officially tender his resignation. His successor will follow him and be asked to form a government.
In recent days, Rishi Sunak was trending all over the world and was predicted to be the next Prime Minister of the Britain. His root is from Indian subcontinent and his parents shifted to London before India's independence.
Sunak didn't gather enough votes to make government and lost the battle with Liz Truss.
