Will She be Another Boris? Or Another Thatcher?
Liz Truss is the new leader of Britain’s ruling political party, the Conservatives, and will become Prime Minister tomorrow.
OLIVER JJ LANE ~ Breitbart.com
The marathon-length process to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and, by extension, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is almost at an end, with Liz Truss duly elected to replace him on Monday afternoon. Speaking to colleagues at a specially convened meeting at Queen Elizabeth II Hall in Westminster, the party officer responsible for Conservative leadership challenges and elections Sir Graham Brady revealed that Liz Truss had bested rival Rishi Sunak in the race to replace Boris Johnson.
Only paid-up members of the Conservative Party were eligible to vote.
Sunak — 60,399 votes (42.6%)
Truss — 81,325 votes (57.3%)
82.6% votes cast out of 172,437 eligible
Mary Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Truss, who is 47 years old, is now the leader of Britain’s largest political party, which means, because the United Kingdom has a Parliamentary rather than Presidential system, that she will now also become Prime Minister. The normally quick constitutional element of that process, which involves the outgoing leader meeting with the Queen to resign and the newcomer then taking on the role, is being delayed until Tuesday.
The Queen, 96, would normally travel to London to undertake her part in this important constitutional process, however her health means she will stay at her home in Scotland: both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss will travel for the meeting tomorrow, after which Truss will begin to assemble her government and lay out governing priorities. While many promises have been made and ideas mooted during the campaign, what she makes time to reiterate in the coming hours and days may be indicative of the future direction of travel, even if Conservative leaders traditionally have an extremely poor track record of keeping promises.