Liz Truss polled 81,326 votes beating Rishi Sunak 69, 399 votes.
She replaces Boris Johnson who steps down on Tuesday.
Liz Truss has risen from the obscurity and loneliness of being an opposition councillor on a Labour-dominated local authority, to the biggest job of them all.
There is more than a smidgen of ambition splashing around Westminster, and more than a few around here allow themselves to dream of becoming prime minister.
For Liz Truss, that ambition becomes reality tomorrow.
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