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UK Picks Truss Amid Massive Crises

But record ethnic mix likely in top cabinet jobs

Sep 06, 2022
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By: John Elliott

Rishi Sunak has been beaten – more narrowly than many had expected – by Liz Truss to become leader of Britain’s Conservative Party and the country’s fourth prime minister in six years.

Truss’s 81,326 votes against Sunak’s 60,399 showed a majority of approximately 21,000, which is less of a landslide than recent media commentary has sugges…

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