Liz Truss, 47, incumbent foreign minister
, has been elected as the new leader of the British Conservative Party, a majority force in the House of Commons, and tomorrow she will take over as prime minister - the third woman in UK history - the resigning Boris Johnson , forced to step aside in July in the wake of scandals and internal Tory conspiracies.
Truss, as widely expected, defeated the former Chancellor of the Exchequer of Indian family roots Rishi Sunak by a clear margin in the final ballot decided by the postal vote of the members.
"We will implement the program":
this was repeated three times by the British premier entering her speech after the announcement of the victory in the internal election to the majority party to choose the successor of Boris Johnson.
And she added: "I won as a conservative and I will behave like one."
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For now, pale imitation.
Third female premier in GB history (ANSA)
The announcement was made by Graham Brady, chairman, of the 1922 Committee, an internal body of the conservative parliamentary group in charge of managing the electoral procedure for the party leadership.
Truss got 81,326 of the votes
expressed by about 172,000 Tory militants over the past few weeks, according to the results of the count made known after 12.30 local time, against 60,399 that went to Sunak.
The handover to the reins of the government will start automatically tomorrow, when Boris Johnson - who has remained in office so far for current affairs - will go to the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth to resign early from the office of prime minister, after just over a three-year period marked by electoral triumph to the policies of 2019, and to "recommend" them according to practice to designate in his place the new leader of the majority formation.
To follow, the sovereign will separately receive Liz Truss - prime minister number 15 of her 70 years of record reign, which began in 1952 when at 10 Downing Street the
tenant was Winston Churchill - to "invite" her to form her new government.
The two meetings will take place for the first time since Elizabeth II sits on the throne in the Scottish residence of Balmoral (where Her Majesty traditionally spends the end of summer between August and September), having been advised by doctors to the elderly monarch afflicted with " mobility problems "to avoid the planned ad hoc movement of nearly a thousand kilometers to London.
Also tomorrow Truss will begin to form his team, starting from the most important government ministerial boxes;
to then debut in Parliament on Wednesday's Question Time in the House of Commons - reopened today after more than a month of summer break - and face the predictable attacks that the Labor leader Keir Starmer and other members of the opposition will immediately bring to the issues of the British political and economic crisis of recent months.
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New premier pays homage to Johnson, 'you are admired by Kiev in Carlisle' (ANSA)
"Congratulations to Liz Truss, the next Prime Minister of the UK. The EU and the UK are natural friends and allies, with the same fundamental interests. Democracies must remain united against autocracy and aggression. The European Parliament it will always be a partner of the British people. "
Roberta Metsola , the president of the Eurocamera,
wrote it on Twitter .