Liz Truss named Britain's next prime minister after winning party vote

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Monday was named the new leader of the ruling Conservative Party and, thus, the next prime minister, beating her rival Rishi Sunak, a former chancellor of the exchequer.Truss, 47, will be formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday after she secured 57.4 percent of the party members' votes to Sunak's 42.6 percent. A total of 172,437 members cast their votes.Truss will replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who decided to step down in July after a wave of ministerial resignations, including Sunak's, triggered by a series of scandals that brought int…READ FULL ARTICLE