{"id":58026,"date":"2022-09-05T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=58026"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:26:27","slug":"liz-truss-named-uks-next-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/liz-truss-named-uks-next-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Truss named UK&#8217;s next prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/afp-3265398\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Conservative party on Monday announced Liz Truss as its new leader to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson and confront Britain&#8217;s deepest economic crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign secretary comfortably beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by about 57 to 43 percent after a gruelling summer-long contest decided by just over 170,000 Conservative members &#8212; a tiny sliver of Britain&#8217;s electorate.<\/p>\n<p>In a short victory speech at the announcement in a central London convention hall, Truss said it was an &#8220;honour&#8221; to be elected after undergoing &#8220;one of the longest job interviews in history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I campaigned as a Conservative, and I will govern as a Conservative,&#8221; she said, touting Tory values of low taxes and personal responsibility. Truss vowed a &#8220;bold plan&#8221; to address tax cuts and the energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/world\/liz-truss-named-as-uk-s-third-woman-prime-minister-3937738\">https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/world\/liz-truss-named-as-uk-s-third-woman-prime-minister-3937738<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0AFP Britain&#8217;s Conservative party on Monday announced Liz Truss as its new leader to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson and confront Britain&#8217;s deepest economic crisis in decades. The foreign secretary comfortably beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by about 57 to 43 percent after a gruelling summer-long contest decided by just over 170,000 Conservative members &#8212; a tiny sliver of Britain&#8217;s electorate. 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