london liz truss has won the conservative leadership race after defeating narayana murthys soninlaw rishi sunak in the contest and will become the next uk prime minister on tuesdaytruss aged 47 will become the third female pm in british political history after travelling to meet the queen at balmoral in scotland on tuesday a graduate in philosophy politics and economics from oxford where she was born she received 81326 votes in the members ballot almost 21000 more than sunak who garnered 60399 votes0113liz truss promises to deliver another victory for the conservative party in 2024the polls and betting companies had predicted truss to win but the margin she got a 574 share of the members vote against sunaks 426 was smaller than expectedread alsorishi sunak the indian who is set to rule britainrishi sunak who lost out earlier to liz truss is set to become the next prime minister having secured the support of a majority of the mps so who is this man who is poised to become britains first nonwhite pmwhy rishi sunak lost the race he was winningthe indianorigin former uk chancellor of exchequer rishi sunak who was leading the race for 10 downing street till recently eventually lost out to colleague liz truss uks foreign secretary who will replace boris johnson as the new uk pm heres what went wronglizs cabinet suella to be only pio ministerlondon liz truss is expected to begin making key ministerial appointments after her formal appointment as leader on tuesday an overview of the people likely to serve in key roles finance kwasi kwarteng truss is expected to appoint current business and energy secretary kwasitories are one family time to unite behind newly appointed british prime minister truss says sunakrishi sunak on monday asked tory members to unite behind newly appointed british prime minister liz truss minutes after she defeated him in the leadership contest to succeed boris johnson to steer the country through difficult timesits impressive former uk finance minister rishi got over 40 of vote pio tory councillorlondon anger exploded in some indian diaspora whatsapp groups over former finance minister rishi sunaks loss in the tory leadership race with members saying the results demonstrated racism in the uk but indianorigin conservative councillor aarien areti said such views were not held among pioin comparison boris johnson got a 664 share of the members vote in 2019 david cameron got 676 in 2005 and iain duncan smith 607 in 2001prime minister narendra modi was among the first of the world leaders to congratulate truss saying confident that under your leadership the indiauk comprehensive strategic partnership will be further strengthened wish you the very best for your new role and responsibilitiesoutgoing uk pm boris johnson also congratulated truss on her decisive win saying now is the time for all conservatives to get behind her 100opposition leader sir keir starmer said sunak and truss were out of touch and called for a general election saying the change we need is not