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This Is Why

Liz Truss: Who is the new PM?

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After six weeks of campaigning, Liz Truss has been named the new leader of the Conservative Party.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson gets the reaction of Tory MPs after the result was announced and speaks to Sky’s politics correspondent Tamara Cohen about the woman who is now the new prime minister.

Editor - Philly Beaumont
Producers - Rosie Gillott
Digital producer - David Chipakupaku

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The total number of valid votes given to each candidate was as follows. Rishi Sunak, 60,399.

1:09.6

Liz Truss, 81,326. Therefore, I give notice that Liz Truss is elected as the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

1:22.1

A result widely predicted, but cheered to the rafters all the same.

1:27.2

Liz Truss is now leader of the Conservatives, and very soon, the next Prime Minister,

1:32.5

our fourth, in six years.

1:37.0

According to some, the earth was created in seven days, but it took seven weeks for the Tory

1:42.8

electorate to make their decision, and throughout that time

1:45.8

the country has been clamouring for answers to the cost of

1:49.5

living crisis. There will be no political honeymoon

1:53.8

from his trust. I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News

1:57.9

Daily.

2:09.6

There was something of a carnival atmosphere outside the conference centre where the result was announced, cited appropriately within a shouting distance of Parliament itself.

2:14.6

Conservatives ranging from the grassroots to leadership candidates ran the gauntlet,

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