Queen's resting place: The image shows the hand-carved Belgian black marble slab with brass letter inlays set into the floor of King George VI Memorial Chapel, St. George’s Chapel, at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England.
UK's PM Truss told lawmakers in Parliament that the two-year “energy price guarantee” means average household bills will be no more than 2,500 pounds ($2,872) a year for heating and electricity.
Liz Truss took over as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Boris Johnson announced his intention to step down as prime minister and leader of the ruling Conservative Party on July 7.
Liz Truss will become the third female Prime Minister of UK. All female prime ministers so far have been Conservative.
Liz Truss becomes Britain's next PM. But the leadership comes in no roses, there is a crown of thorns awaiting her as the UK reels under a cost-of-living crisis and is amid its worst inflation.
UK PM race: If elected, 42-year-old Rishi Sunak will go on to make history as the first Prime Minister of the UK of Indian heritage.
Rishi Sunak, from being the clear frontrunner in the early knockout stages of the contest with the Tory MPs, has been trailing Truss in most surveys of party members voting to elect a new leader to succeed Johnson.
UK PM Race: Foreign Secretary Truss, who is the current frontrunner according to pre-poll surveys and bookie’s odds, was due to face tough questions from veteran BBC political journalist Nick Robinson in a one-on-one interview – already done by Sunak earlier this month.
The survey also shows a majority in favour of ousted leader Boris Johnson, with 55 per cent saying that Tory MPs were wrong to effectively force him to resign and 40 per cent saying they were right.
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will continue their intense campaigning up and down the country as they appear at a series of hustings organised by the Conservative Campaign Headquarters.
UK PM Race: Rishi Sunak clinched his place for the final leg of the race to succeed Boris Johnson and will go head-to-head with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as one of two finalists to take charge as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister.
UK PM Race: Rishi Sunak has topped another round of vote in British PM race with 118 votes, in bid to become the next British Prime Minister.
UK PM race: Johnson, who resigned as the leader of the ruling Conservative Party on July 7, has been urging defeated Tory leadership candidates not to back former chancellor Sunak, who is widely blamed for Johnson's loss of support among his own party members, The Times newspaper reported.
UK Prime Minister Race: Rishi Sunak, Indian origin former UK finance minister receives maximum votes in the first round, to replace Boris Johnson as the next British Prime Minister. Two candidates were eliminated.
UK PM Race: Rishi Sunak, who formally launched his campaign earlier, remains the frontrunner in the race with reportedly the highest number of MPs behind him.
Boris Johnson resigns as UK PM: Johnson's resignation on Thursday comes after he weathered numerous scandals during a tumultuous three years in power in which he brazenly bent and sometimes broke the rules of British politics.
Boris Johnson also said that the British government does not welcome people who want to use the British legal system to evade the law here in India.
Boris Johnson landed in Gujarat earlier today and was accorded a grand welcome at the airport in Ahmedabad.
Johnson landed in Gujarat earlier today for his two-day India visit. He was accorded a grand welcome at the airport in Ahmedabad.
Former Conservative leader William Hague said Johnson had done “the minimum in responding to the report rather than (going) further in his apology and his proposals.”
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