Boris Johnson

Unlike the two-month contest held over the summer to replace Boris Johnson, party officials have designed a condensed election process that aims to have a new prime minister in place within a week.

Liz Truss's announcement Thursday that she will resign after less than seven weeks in office has also prompted renewed calls from opposition parties for an early general election to end months of political chaos.

After Liz Truss' six-week tenure, the Conservative Party is expected to elect a new UK prime minister by October 28.

"He's taking soundings but is said to believe it is a matter of national interest," Times Political Editor Steven Swinford said on Twitter.

Expressing concerns over what the Home Secretary feared would be an “open borders” migration policy in an interview with ‘The Spectator’ on Thursday, the senior minister seemed to indicate that she would not offer Cabinet backing to a trade deal that offers India greater visa concessions.

Before stepping down, former prime minister Boris Johnson set a target with Indian leader Narendra Modi to complete a free trade agreement (FTA) by Diwali on October 24.

Liz Truss acknowledged that the U.K. faces “a very turbulent and stormy time,” but said her policies would lead to a “high-growth, low-tax economy” in the longer term.

Liz Truss' big gambit upon succeeding Boris Johnson, a mini-budget crowded with tax cuts, looks like a policy debacle, recklessly inflationary and fiscally destabilizing.

After losing the UK Prime Minister's job to Liz Truss, Rishi said he was "proud" of the campaign he ran and has indicated he did not plan to serve in a Truss-led Cabinet if offered a job.

After making a farewell speech outside Downing Street, he left London to travel to Scotland and tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth. Truss will then be appointed prime minister and start to form a government.

Boris Johnson's audience with the 96-year-old monarch will be followed soon after by foreign secretary Liz Truss, who beat former chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership election, meeting the Queen to be formally asked to form a new government.

Members of the Conservative party the approximately 180,000 people who elected the new leader will be delighted that the continuity candidate got over the line.

Liz Truss defeated rival Rishi Sunak in a vote of Conservative Party members for the party's leadership, promising to deliver tax cuts and to help people with their energy bills and Britain faces a mounting energy crisis.

No one knows what Truss truly believes in. How this unpredictability will play out if and when Truss finally moves into 10 Downing Street, will be interesting to see.

Truss, 47, who became Britain’s third female prime minister by defeating Rishi Sunak, has her task cut out amid worsening inflation and still ongoing impact from Brexit

Minorities of south Asian origin have recently held major offices of state, like home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer.

His two and a half years in Downing Street have exposed some of the vulnerabilities of British constitutional norms, demonstrating how the combination of a strong parliamentary majority, ambiguous ministerial and parliamentary rules and a national crisis can give prime ministers a seemingly free hand to dominate political life and avoid scrutiny.

Rishi Sunak shared a picture with his parents, Yashvir and Usha Sunak, as the campaign to elect the new British prime minister drew to a close.

The 54 million pound ($63.5 million) package will include 200 drones and loitering munitions to enable the Ukrainian military to better track and target invading Russian forces, Johnson's office said in a statement.

Michael Gove, who was dramatically sacked as Levelling Up Secretary by Johnson after he called for him to quit amid a mounting Cabinet rebellion against the outgoing Prime Minister last month, branded current frontrunner Foreign Secretary Liz Truss’ tax-cutting plans to tackle the cost-of-living crisis facing the country as a holiday from realit