Liz Truss will be crowned as the UK’s new Prime Minister tomorrow, after winning the Conservative party leadership contest.
Truss today beat out rival Rishi Sunak at the end of the two-month contest and will be appointed as Prime Minister by the Queen tomorrow in Balmoral.
Truss won just over 57 per cent of the vote in a much closer result than the polls had predicted.
Truss said she would “govern as a conservative” and promised that “we will deliver, we will deliver and we will deliver” in a short acceptance speech.
It was widely expected Truss would win after consistently leading Sunak in polling of Tory members by 30+ points over the past month.
It is expected that Kwasi Kwarteng will be chancellor, Suella Braverman will be home secretary and James Cleverly will be foreign secretary when her cabinet is announced tomorrow.
Therese Coffey, Ben Wallace and Kemi Badenoch are also set for major roles in the new government.
Truss will also announce her plan this week to support households facing a near doubling of energy bills this autumn, with speculation rife that she could freeze energy prices at their current levels.
