Liz Truss has appeared to rule out an early election as she was named new Prime Minister on Monday (September 5). The current foreign secretary will be handed the keys to Number 10 Downing Street on Tuesday (September 5) after Boris Johnson officially tenders his resignation in a meeting with the Queen at Balmoral.
Truss beat Rishi Sunak with 81,326 votes from the Tory membership, to Sunak’s 60,399. She used her victory speech to indicate she would not be triggering an early general election - as well as to thank outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Truss concluded her statement, made at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, by saying: “Because my friends, I know that we will deliver, we will deliver and we will deliver. And we will deliver a great victory for the Conservative Party in 2024.”
