LONDON - Liz Truss will be the United Kingdom's next prime minister after being voted in as leader of the governing Conservative Party by grassroots members on Monday.Prime Minister Boris Johnson's resignation in July.Ms Truss, 47, will be the UK's third female prime minister after Mrs Margaret Thatcher and Mrs Theresa May .
Long the front runner in the race to replace Mr Johnson, Ms Truss will become the Conservatives’ fourth prime minister since a 2015 election. Truss has signalled during her leadership campaign she would challenge convention by scrapping tax increases and cutting other levies that some economists say would fuel inflation.
The Institute for Government said Ms Truss would have a weaker starting point than any of her predecessors, because she was not the most popular choice among her party’s lawmakers.