Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary, to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister
LA TimesBritish Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has won the race for leader of the Conservative Party, succeeding Boris Johnson in the job and as prime minister. Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary, will be the country’s new prime minister, succeeding Boris Johnson and becoming the third woman to hold the post as the country faces an acute cost-of-living crisis. She beat former treasury chief Rishi Sunak, who would have been Britain’s first prime minister of color had he won more votes than Truss among the party’s 172,000 dues-paying members. World & Nation Photos: Before the resignation, the colorful reign of Britain’s Boris Johnson LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday amid a mass revolt by top members of his government, marking an end to three tumultuous years in power in which he brazenly bent and sometimes broke the rules of British politics.