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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Elizabeth Piper, Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout

As party members decide, Truss has upper hand in contest to be Britain's new PM

FILE PHOTO: British Foreign Secretary and Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss attends a Conservative Party leadership campaign event in Marden, Britain, July 23, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Few members of the governing Conservative Party supported foreign secretary Liz Truss when the leadership contest began this month, but now there's a sense of inevitability that she will become Britain's next prime minister.

"It's hers to lose" is the common refrain from party members, who will cast their votes in coming weeks to appoint the new Conservative leader and successor to Boris Johnson.

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