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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Britain\u2019s Conservative Party has named Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as its leader triggering the beginning of a handover from Prime Minister Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n

She is taking power as Britain\u2019s next prime minister at a time when the country faces a cost-of-living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession.<\/p>\n

The announcement that was made on Monday came after weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive party leadership contest that pitted Truss against Rishi Sunak, a former finance minister.<\/p>\n

Johnson was forced to announce his resignation in July after a series of scandals and he will travel to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday to officially tender his resignation.<\/p>\n

His successor will follow him and be asked to form a government.<\/p>\n

In a short victory speech at the announcement in a central London convention hall, Truss said it was an \u201chonour\u201d to be elected after undergoing \u201cone of the longest job interviews in history\u201d.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Jonah Hull, reporting from London, said Truss won not as resoundingly as the opinion polls might have earlier suggested. He said:<\/p>\n

She picked up 57 per cent of eligible votes among Conservative Party members. Rishi Sunak, former chancellor of the exchequer, got 42 per cent.<\/p>\n

She promised that she campaigned as a Conservative and she will govern as a Conservative, she promised to cut taxes, to grow the economy, she promised to deal with the energy crisis.<\/p>\n

Truss became the Conservatives\u2019 fourth prime minister since a 2015 election.<\/p>\n

Over that period the country 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 per cent in July.<\/p>\n

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