Either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will be crowned the next Conservative Party leader and prime minister of the UK later today, after a gruelling summer contest.
The pair have spent the past six weeks battling it out to persuade Tory members that they have what it takes to run the party – and the country – after Boris Johnson resigned.
But the nation is now hours away from finding out which of the pair have won the keys to Number 10.
At around 12.30pm, the returning officer for the Conservative leadership election – chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench MPs, Sir Graham Brady – will announce the result of the contest.
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Mr Johnson will then later this week make his return to the Tory back benches, while the victor of the leadership race will be looking ahead to appointing their top team after visiting the Queen in Balmoral.
On the eve of the announcement, Ms…
