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The UK will learn on Monday who will be its next prime minister, with Liz Truss the favourite to succeed Boris Johnson and take charge as the country ...

I mean, we're facing a genuine emergency. "We shouldn't rule anything out. She said Sunday she would "within a month present a full plan for how we are going to reduce taxes" and "get the British economy going". "If I'm elected prime minister, I will act immediately on bills and on energy supply," Truss told the BBC on Sunday, while declining to give details. Postal and online voting closed Friday after eight weeks of campaigning that Truss described to the BBC as "the longest job interview in history". The UK will learn on Monday who will be its next prime minister, with Liz Truss the favourite to succeed Boris Johnson and take charge as the country battles a spiralling cost-of-living crisis.

Team Rishi was running a general election campaign, but Truss knew her audience – the Tory members – and kept her eye on the ball. LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST ...

“It was a really bad mistake and it shouldn’t have got through but they scrapped it really quickly so it didn’t become a problem, they admitted it was a f*** up,” the source said. “We’ve had enough of that, we need to get away from the chaos and back to something much more consistent and competent.” “They were always on the front foot, they had strong consistent messages, and they landed really well in the key papers, where they always had content,” they said. “It was a message people liked, people thought it was a roll of the dice but a gamble worth taking.” “Rishi’s team were focused on the MPs for a week-and-a-half, and then once it became clear they were in the final two, they thought they were running a general election campaign. “Rishi’s team fell into the trap of thinking a couple of nice social videos and the Instagrammability of Rishi would be enough.” “Rishi lost the moment Liz made it to the final two and there was a candidate to the right of him,” they said. The insider said: “Liz was very smart in having Mark Fulbrook as he knows that one bit of politics really well – the Tory Party – and that was a massive advantage. Meanwhile, the MP admitted that Mr Sunak’s team perhaps underestimated Ms Truss “in terms of the way she performed” and would go on to perform in hustings and debates. “Liz had a very difficult start to the campaign, she improved a lot from her first hustings appearance” they said. “I think people underestimating her, and how badly she wanted it, and how quickly she could improve, was actually a massive advantage to her,” they said. The MP also conceded the fact that Mr Sunak is “very clearly from a wealthy background” amid a cost of living crisis “clearly affected him”.

Boris Johnson's successor as UK prime minister will be revealed later.

The pollsters are equally convinced of a Truss victory. "Before you have been elected as prime minister, you don't have all the wherewithal to get the things done," she told the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme. The winner of the leadership contest will be announced at 12.30pm, before being handed the keys to Number 10 on Tuesday. Mr Sunak, meanwhile, is sitting at around 12/1. The UK's new prime minister will be revealed on Monday. The new leader is expected to make a speech following the announcement, before spending the rest of the day finalising their choices for Cabinet and wider ministerial roles and writing their first prime ministerial speech.

The winner of the Tory leadership contest is revealed later - before becoming PM on Tuesday.

And the stakes are high, for voters are worried about their bills most of all. But also for the Conservative Party, worried about its future. [travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62728328) to be appointed by the Queen, rather than at Buckingham Palace. That will include tax cuts and help for families and businesses. The original field of 11 contenders was whittled down to two in a series of Tory MP ballots, with the final pair going into a run-off to be decided by the membership, which stands at about 160,000. Mr Johnson was forced out in July by a ministerial revolt over a string of scandals, just over two-and-a-half years after leading the Tories to a landslide victory at the 2019 election. Ms Truss did not rule out a freeze on Sunday but has previously described the idea as a "sticking plaster" and argues more needs to be done to help the UK boost its domestic sources of energy. She said any further support would have to go "hand in hand" with efforts to boost nuclear energy, fracking for shale gas and more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. On Sunday the foreign secretary declined to say whether further help would be universal or targeted at the most needy, saying she would need time in office to iron out the details of her plan. After weeks of talking to Conservative members, the new prime minister will have to start talking to the country immediately. Ms Truss is yet to offer details of her cost-of-living support plan beyond saying she will temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills and reverse the rise in National Insurance introduced during Mr Johnson's tenure. BBC News has been told that a menu of options has been worked up in Whitehall to help struggling households, including a freeze on energy bills.

The former chancellor signals he believes he has lost the race to become the next prime minister.

On the possibility that he might stand in a future leadership race, he said: "We've just finished this campaign. I need to recover from this one." Rishi Sunak has signalled he believes he has lost the Tory leadership race, telling the BBC his job "now is just to support a Conservative government".

The former chancellor has pledged to remain in Parliament and 'support the Conservative government' if he loses leadership race to Liz Truss.

[the BBC’s Laura Kuenessberg](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/sunday-laura-kuenssberg-review-calm-competent-please-ditch/) that he would remain as an MP and would “support the Conservative government”. But I look forward to supporting the Conservative government in whatever capacity.” going to work for Facebook means nothing to him because he probably earns more from his investments,” the source said. I need to recover from this one. [His wife](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/04/07/rishi-sunak-wife-boris-johnson-news-akshata-murthy-energy/) and mother, who has featured prominently in his campaign as a childhood inspiration, was present at the final leadership hustings in London last week. [a stint on the backbenches](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/03/rishi-sunak-must-treated-properly-liz-truss-not-sent-backbenches/) if he does not win the Tory leadership race on Monday.

The likely Tory leadership flop insisted he was 'going to stay as an MP', but did not rule out a return to the sun-soaked west coast of the USA in the long ...

But I look forward to supporting the Conservative government in whatever capacity." I need to recover from this one. Asked if that is a yes, he said: "No gosh, no no no, I think my job now is just to support a Conservative government. We've just finished this campaign. “I have lived and worked in California and I actually think it's one of the reasons that I would be good at this job. Asked if he’d commit to standing in the next election, rather than returning to California, he replied: "It's presumptuous for me to say because I have to get selected by my own members.”

The former chancellor said he will continue as an MP regardless of the result of the current race for the keys to Number 10.

Asked if that means he is not ruling out another run for the top job, he added: “No gosh, no no no, I think my job now is just to support a Conservative Government. But I was with them on Friday night and it’s been a great privilege to represent them. But I look forward to supporting the Conservative Government in whatever capacity.”

The Conservative leadership race will come to an end today as Tories Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are set to find out which of them will be crowned Britain's ...

The new PM is expected to do this speech after returning from seeing the Queen on Tuesday. Theresa May vowed to stamp out "burning injustices" in her first speech, while Boris Johnson put delivering Brexit at the heart of his address. Traditionally, the outgoing PM makes a speech outside Downing Street. [expected to be named the next Conservative leader and PM](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/new-prime-minister-announced-whats-27857790), with former Chancellor Sunak having signalled that he believes he has lost, saying his job "now is just to support a Conservative government". Over that period Britain has been buffeted from crisis to crisis, and now faces what is forecast to be a long recession triggered by sky-rocketing inflation which hit 10.1% in July. “And I think given all of the challenges facing the winner of this contest this winter, I think that would be the best way of a successful outcome for the Conservative Party and the Conservative government.” After weeks of gaffes and vicious in-fighting, the winner of the Tory leadership contest is finally set to be unveiled, ready for a nightmare autumn of battling the cost of living crisis and trying to reunite their fractured party. "They have all the access they needed to the books, they have chosen to sit on their hands and do nothing and neither of them have come up with any plans. “And it is clearly pumping a large amount of money into the economy on top of the £30 billion we’ve already had to support energy bills, on top of the presumably many, many 10s of billions additional that are going to come from that, and on top of what’s going to have to be more money for public services. He was also quizzed about reports of plotting against Liz Truss if she becomes the next PM, but he said that would not be “helpful” and urged his colleagues to “all get behind the winner”. [Truss is poised to take power](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/who-liz-truss-cabinet-predictions-27800857?111=) at a time when Brits face a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession and takes the reins from a PM who was forced to announce his resignation in July after [months of scandal](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-awful-record-pm-27906863). [strongly considering freezing energy bills](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-considering-freeze-energy-27907956) in some form in a bid to ease the burden on households this winter.

The result of the Conservative Party leadership contest will be announced at 12.30pm with the winner to take up office on Tuesday. In a break with tradition, ...

“Whether the strident way in which she has brought forward the Northern Ireland Protocol legislation in the UK, which, of course, has created a lot of tension and undermined trust, whether that will continue to be her strategy as prime minister or not.” He wrote in the Financial Times: “As prime minister, Liz will take immediate action if elected that will help people with the challenges we face in the coming months, and lay the groundwork for the change we need in the long term.” Kwasi Kwarteng, who is widely tipped to become the next Chancellor in a Liz Truss cabinet, has promised to run a “lean state” if he takes the reins in the Treasury. Mr Sunak said “everyone is going to need some help” and those on the lowest incomes, about a third of all households in the country, and pensioners, will need additional support. Boris Johnson will be a “thorn in the side” of his successor, his closest allies have suggested. Ms Truss told the BBC on Sunday night it “will take a week to sort out the precise plans” but she understands that skyrocketing energy bills are “a huge problem”.

The winner of the Tory leadership contest is revealed later - before becoming PM on Tuesday.

And the stakes are high, for voters are worried about their bills most of all. But also for the Conservative Party, worried about its future. [travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62728328) to be appointed by the Queen, rather than at Buckingham Palace. That will include tax cuts and help for families and businesses. The original field of 11 contenders was whittled down to two in a series of Tory MP ballots, with the final pair going into a run-off to be decided by the membership, which stands at about 160,000. Mr Johnson was forced out in July by a ministerial revolt over a string of scandals, just over two-and-a-half years after leading the Tories to a landslide victory at the 2019 election. Ms Truss did not rule out a freeze on Sunday but has previously described the idea as a "sticking plaster" and argues more needs to be done to help the UK boost its domestic sources of energy. She said any further support would have to go "hand in hand" with efforts to boost nuclear energy, fracking for shale gas and more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. On Sunday the foreign secretary declined to say whether further help would be universal or targeted at the most needy, saying she would need time in office to iron out the details of her plan. After weeks of talking to Conservative members, the new prime minister will have to start talking to the country immediately. Ms Truss is yet to offer details of her cost-of-living support plan beyond saying she will temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills and reverse the rise in National Insurance introduced during Mr Johnson's tenure. BBC News has been told that a menu of options has been worked up in Whitehall to help struggling households, including a freeze on energy bills.

The UK is set to announce its new Prime Minister on Monday, after a six-week long head-to-head competition between Indian-origin former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, to elect the new leader of the Conservative ...

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are vying to replace Boris Johnson as UK's next Prime Minister. On Brexit, both the Tory leadership candidates vowed to reset the relationship between European Union (EU) and the UK. Notably, corporation tax, policing and ethics were the key highlights in the Conservative party hustings in Birmingham. I am ready to take the tough decisions to rebuild our economy," Truss said in a Saturday article for a UK-based media outlet, reported Sputnik. Thank you to all my colleagues, campaign team and, of course, all the members who came out to meet me and lend your support," wrote Rishi Sunak. However, Truss who is widely expected to take over from Boris Johnson as the next British prime minister seems to have less fan following.

The poll, conducted on behalf of Sky News, found that 57 per cent of Tory members had already voted in the party's leadership election, 68 per cent of them for ...

But the more likely possibility, surely, is that both men have reached the end of the road. Everything to which he has turned his hand, he has managed; every roll of the die has produced a six. The tragedy for these men is that the qualities that carried them to those heights means they can’t see the fall ahead. Yet “friends” of the Prime Minister – apparently he still has some – have let it be known that he is happy to wait on the backbenches for everything to go wrong under his successor, when his ungrateful party will come crawling back. [Johnson](https://www.newstatesman.com/tag/boris-johnson), unlike Sunak, has known failure – witness both his departure from the 2016 leadership race and from the Foreign Office in 2018. Despite his attempts to hint otherwise, Sunak did not grow up within a million miles of the breadline – instead, he came from the sort of affluent middle-class background shared by millions of others, from which he has risen steadily to get within touching distance of the very top job in politics. As a man who has never known failure, of course he believes he will still grab victory from the jaws of defeat to become prime minister. There he also met his future wife, Akshata Murty, whose father was a billionaire, but Sunak didn’t let that put him off making his own way in the world: he went on to Goldman Sachs, then a hedge fund, then another hedge fund. This was a man who assumed that the poll was wrong, or that there was a decent chance his opponent would implode. This meant that to have any chance of winning [Rishi Sunak](https://www.newstatesman.com/tag/rishi-sunak) would need nearly three-quarters of the remaining votes to go his way. This is partly because, despite all his flaws as both a politician and a man, he is a less terrifying potential PM than the only other alternative, which is saying something. From there he went on to Oxford, where he took PPE, graduating with a first; then to Stanford, where he was a Fulbright scholar, and received an MBA.

Results of the contest between the Conservative Party's Truss and Sunak will be announced at 12.30 pm BST (5 pm in India) on September 5.

Following the appointment, the new Prime Minister will fly back to London, and deliver a speech outside 10 Downing Street. Their exact number is not known, and The Guardian reported that about 150,000 were registered and eligible to vote in the last leadership election in 2019, their numbers could now be between 180,000 and 200,000 — which would make this group about 0.3% of the population. She will not be able to travel to the capital for the ceremony. The process of electing the new leader of the Conservatives — the new PM — started after Boris Johnson was forced out of power by a massive revolt in his party that capped his turbulent and scandal-hit three-year tenure. The result of the contest will be announced at 12.30 pm BST (5 pm in India) on Monday. But if projections in the British media are to be trusted, it will more likely be [Liz Truss, 47, secretary of state](https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/who-is-liz-truss-united-kingdom-prime-minister-race-8052062/) for foreign, commonwealth, and development affairs, (foreign minister) who visited India at the end of March this year.

THE SNP has warned that Scotland will lose out no matter who wins the keys to Downing Street in the Tory leadership race.

The only way to escape the damage of [Brexit](https://www.thenational.scot/news/brexit/), protect people’s livelihoods and deliver meaningful change is to become an independent country." [trying to block Scotland’s route to](https://www.thenational.scot/news/20664041.liz-truss-rishi-sunak-try-woo-scottish-tory-mps-perth-hustings/) [independence](https://www.thenational.scot/news/scottish-independence/) [.](https://www.thenational.scot/news/20664041.liz-truss-rishi-sunak-try-woo-scottish-tory-mps-perth-hustings/) [Westminster](https://www.thenational.scot/politics/westminster/) control. [Nicola Sturgeon: Tory promises have failed Scots amid cost-of-living crisis](https://www.thenational.scot/news/20899836.nicola-sturgeon-tory-promises-failed-scots-amid-cost-of-living-crisis/) [according to money-saving expert Martin Lewis.](https://www.thenational.scot/news/national/uk-today/20890241.martin-lewis-cheapest-energy-bill-payment-method-price-cap-rises/) [with bills set to rise by 80% from £1971 to £3549 from October 1.](https://www.thenational.scot/news/20775329.ofgem-sued-energy-price-cap-spike-80-per-cent/)

Voting among the estimated 200,000 Tory members charged with choosing Boris Johnson's successor closed on Friday, and either the foreign secretary or Rishi ...

He added: “There is a general sense that nothing is really working anymore, and neither of the candidates to be prime minister had any answer to those issues ... [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) “He welcomed chaos because he thought it created opportunities. It was, after all, how he got Brexit done. [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. Electricity, gas and water at the No 10 and No 11 flats are covered by the state as a “benefit in kind” – with Ms Truss only set to pay tax on the perk of around £1,980 this winter – meaning she “won’t face the same concerns” as ordinary Britons, Labour said. [Liz Truss warned against ‘bad’ Boris Johnson mistake of filling cabinet with friends](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-cabinet-boris-johnson-b2159908.html) [is on course to repeat](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-cabinet-boris-johnson-b2155988.html) Boris Johnson’s mistake of packing her first cabinet with only allies, a senior Tory peer has warned. “Anything for her under 60 per cent is bound to be read as a disappointment”, while a result aligned with Boris Johnson’s 2019 result of 66 per cent “would be an emphatic win”, he suggested. The polling found that 65 per cent of respondents think Ms Truss is “out of touch”, while half said she was “dislikeable”, and 45 per cent believe she is “incompetent”. Jill Rutter, a former civil servant and senior research fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe think-tank, suggested this issue “was the source of many Johnson disasters and how he managed to look like a minority PM with an 80 majority”. Polling from YouGov this weekend makes grim reading for Liz Truss and the Conservative Party more generally, with just 12 per cent of respondents believing the Tory leadership frontrunner would be a “good” or “great” prime minister.

Latest updates: follow all the developments as the new leader of the Conservatives is elected.

But perhaps Truss is also nervous about confirming that her first act as PM will be to announce a freeze on energy bills – a policy proposed by Labour last month, and also championed by Gordon Brown (who was regularly cited by Truss during the campaign as representing the sort of economic policy she rejected). But she did not deny that she was considering this in her BBC interview yesterday, and in the papers this morning there are multiple reports saying that this is what she is planning. I try to monitor the comments below the line (BTL) but it is impossible to read them all. [Boris Johnson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/boris-johnson) as prime minister after an audience with the Queen tomorrow, has seen that process inverted. But the Conservative party ballot, which will end today with Liz Truss all but certain to be chosen as the new leader, to replace When it was put to her that the rich would gain most from her plan to reverse the national insurance increase, Truss insisted her proposal was “fair”. And it’s essential that the political solutions that a government crafts, go with the grain of the laws of economics, because if you try and confront the laws of economics, you will come unstuck. (See [8.48am.)](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/sep/05/liz-truss-pm-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-energy-bill-freeze-tory-conservative-leader-uk-politics-live-latest-updates?page=with:block-6315a6ac8f0891b09bc876e1#block-6315a6ac8f0891b09bc876e1) Here are the key points. Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the backbench 1922 Committee, said there should be a “rethink” of the timetable before the next contest. Given the severity of the crisis we face, there will need to be some fiscal loosening to help people through the winter. As prime minister, Liz will take immediate action if elected that will help people with the challenges we face in the coming months, and lay the groundwork for the change we need in the long term. And yes, the Treasury will ensure that politicians, however senior, are confronted with the realities of the economic facts of life.

The new Tory leader will be handed the keys to Number 10 on Tuesday after an audience with the Queen at Balmoral.

“Under Liz Truss, we’re set to see more of the same crisis and chaos as under Boris Johnson. It’s good for the country and he should stay gone.” I look forward to supporting the Government in that task.” It would be ridiculous ever to take a result for granted. “That shows not only that she’s out of touch, but she’s not on the side of working people. You were admired from Kyiv to Carlisle.” Emerging from the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster where the result of the Tory leadership contest was announced, Mr Rees-Mogg said: “Delighted Liz Truss has won. She tweeted: “Congratulations to Liz Truss. Liz Truss must do what should’ve happened months ago and deliver help to the millions unable to cope with their crushing bills.” Incoming prime minister Liz Truss promised a “bold plan” to cut taxes and grow the economy and “deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people’s energy bills but also dealing with the long-term issues we have on energy supply”. So she needs to deal with the cost-of-living crisis, she needs to deal with the fact the NHS is on its knees, and she needs to deal with the collapse of law and order.” “Liz Truss has an opportunity to come in now and stop pandering to the DUP, stop pandering to the approach which is damaging to our ability to help people through the cost-of-living crisis,” she said.

Foreign secretary sees off former chancellor in race for Tory leadership. She will take over from Boris Johnson on Tuesday.

Liz Truss offers more of the same old failed Tory ideas that got us in this mess.” Paying tribute to her “friend” Johnson in her acceptance speech, Truss said: “Boris, you got Brexit done. In 2019, Boris Johnson won 66 percent of votes in the membership ballot, with Jeremy Hunt winning 34 percent. “I know our beliefs resonate with British people,” she said, adding: “I campaigned as a Conservative and will govern as a Conservative.” after comfortably seeing off rival Rishi Sunak in the race to lead the governing Conservative Party. [on a raft of promises](https://www.politico.eu/article/elizabeth-truss-uk-tory-government-policy-manifesto/) she made during the campaign and take the Conservatives — currently lagging in the polls — to victory at the next election.

Britain's third ever female in Britain's top job appeared to blank her rival as she walked up to the podium to make a speech.

[Keir Starmer](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/keir-starmer) was one of the first to congratulated [Liz Truss](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/liz-truss) on her win. [Rishi Sunak](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/rishi-sunak). [Brexit](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/brexit) done, you crushed [Jeremy Corbyn](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/jeremy-corbyn), you rolled out the vaccine and you stood up to [Vladimir Putin](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/vladimir-putin). [here](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-leadership-result-live-liz-27907796) [Boris Johnson](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/boris-johnson) as she accepted her victory in the Tory leadership contest. She said it was an honour to be announced as the winner of the Tory leadership contest after a “hard-fought campaign” against