As the newly-elected Conservative party leader - and Prime Minister - Liz Truss will have a busy afternoon finalising her choices for Cabinet and wider ministerial roles. The current foreign secretary was announced as the new PM on Monday (September 5) at the QEII Conference Centre in central London.
Thousands of Tory party members cast their votes before the deadline on Friday. Truss won with 81,326 votes from the Tory membership, to Rishi Sunak’s 60,399.
While it may be tempting to appoint a stream of loyalists to get her premiership off the ground, Truss will be acutely aware of the need to heal the fissures ripped though the Tory party by the summer’s bitter leadership contest.
