Liz Truss set to become Britain's next prime minister

Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister. She is succeeding Boris Johnson.

Truss’s selection was announced Monday in London after a leadership election in which only the 180,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak, the government’s former Treasury chief, by promising to increase defence spending and cut taxes, while refusing to say how she would address the cost-of-living crisis.

Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to formally name Truss as Britain’s prime minister on Tuesday. The ceremony will take place at the Queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, where the monarch is vacationing, rather than at Buckingham Palace.

Global’s Crystal Goomansingh has this breaking update.

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