In the end, the result was no shock, as Tory veteran Liz Truss defeated Rishi Sunak to become the UK’s next Prime Minister. It may seem odd to a global audience that the leader of a country of 67 million people could be selected by just over 140,000 members of a political party which just happens to be in office at a given time, but there we are.
Tom Tugendhat was the only Catholic in the Conservative Party leadership race in an increasingly secular Britain, where Christianity is more and more propped up by the country’s ethnic minorities. As for Truss’s own position on religion, she has said: “I share the values of the Christian faith and the Church of England, but I’m not a regular practising religious person.”
