UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss defeated Indian-origin former chancellor Rishi Sunak to be named the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest on Monday and will now go on to take charge as British Prime Minister as Boris Johnson’s successor.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Truss.
The 47-year-old Truss is the third female British PM. Truss polled 81,326 votes, compared to Sunak’s 60,399 in an election with a high turnout of 82.6 per cent, with 654 rejected ballots from a total of 172,437 eligible Tory voters.
