Republican congressman Mike Johnson has been elected as the next Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
The deeply conservative politician swept the vote on the first ballot following weeks of turmoil since the ousting of Kevin McCarthy. He had emerged as the fourth Republican nominee for speaker and counts Donald Trump among his backers.
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