Truss has beaten former chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest to be chosen as the next Prime Minister, winning 81,326 votes compared to Sunak's 60,399 votes.
Upon winning the Tory leadership contest, Truss will visit the Queen in Balmoral who will formally ask her to form a Government.
Reports suggest that Truss has lined up a number of close allies for key cabinet roles including the current education secretary James Cleverly and Sir Iain Duncan Smith who quit as work and pensions secretary in 2016.
According to the national newspapers, Kemi Badenoch – who stood against Truss in the leadership contest – could be given the post of education secretary.
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