UK PM race: Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Conservative Party to Announce Result Today

The UK is set to announce its new Prime Minister on Monday, after a six-week long head-to-head competition between Indian-origin former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, to elect the new leader of the Conservative Party who will replace the outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

47-year-old Liz Truss aims to become the third female prime minister of the UK while her opponent Rishi Sunak, 42 will make history by becoming the first Indian-origin Prime Minister, if he prevails. All eyes are on the results now, which will be announced by the Conservative party today via mail-in ballot. However, Truss who is widely expected to take over from Boris Johnson as the next British prime minister seems to have less fan following. According to the latest YouGov survey, the citizens of Britain are split on whether Liz Truss would be a better PM than Boris Johnson but tend to think Truss would be worse than every other PM back to Thatcher.

Nearly 52 percent said that Truss would make a "poor" or "terrible" prime minister, while 43 percent said they did not trust her "at all" to deal with the issues of the expensive cost of living. A further 37 percent of Britons believe she will be much the same as her predecessor.

The voting by Tory members for their choice between Sunak and Truss which started early August closed on Friday evening.

The two contenders have gone through a postal ballot of all the Conservative members, numbering around 160,000 Tory electorate to replace the UK outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson.

The online and postal voting closed on Friday evening, the deadline for Tory members to register their votes. "Voting is now closed. Thank you to all my colleagues, campaign team and, of...