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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill

Race to become UK PM down to final two: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss

Conservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak arrives at an office building in London, Britain, July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain's next prime minister after they won the final lawmaker vote, setting up the last stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson.

Sunak has led in all rounds of the voting among Conservative lawmakers, but it is Truss who seems to have gained the advantage so far among the 200,000 members of the governing party who will ultimately choose the winner.

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