Liz Truss, who said UK 'should welcome cryptocurrencies' will be the next pri...

Liz Truss, who said UK 'should welcome cryptocurrencies' will be the next pri...

Winning the election to be Conservative Party leader with 57.4% of the vote from members compared to Rishi Sunak’s 42.6%, Liz Truss will be the next U.K. prime minister. After a race to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, Secretary of State for foreign, commonwealth and development affairs Liz Truss has defeated f​​ormer chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak to become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom.Boris Johnson, who served as the U.K. prime minister since 2019, will be on his way out of office and leaving Truss as the party leader, after she won the election....


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