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Nicholas Allen, Reader in Politics, Royal Holloway University of London

Liz Truss: who is the UK's new prime minister and why has she replaced Boris Johnson?

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The United Kingdom’s next prime minister will be Liz Truss. After a two-month contest, Conservative Party members have chosen her as their new leader. All that remains is for Truss to travel to Balmoral in Scotland where she will be formally invited by the Queen to form a government.

Truss will become the Conservatives’ fourth leader and prime minister in just over six years. She’s Queen Elizabeth’s fifteenth prime minister, and the third woman to hold the job.

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