Good morning. Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister. Albanese promises to work with the resources sector to “reduce emissions in a predictable and orderly way.” And the Guardian Essential poll tracks a worrying fall in Australians’ trust in government.
Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after beating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership contest. The foreign secretary won 81,326 votes (57.4%) of Tory members to the former chancellor’s 60,399 (42.6%) and will take over from Boris Johnson, who was ousted by his own MPs earlier this summer. But the euphoria of victory will quickly give way to the hard reality of the economic challenges ahead, with the country gripped by a cost of living crisis leaving families struggling to pay their energy bills this winter.
