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By Andrew MacAskill and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -British minister Penny Mordaunt on Friday launched her bid to replace Liz Truss as prime minister, becoming the first Conservative lawmaker to formally announce they are running. Mordaunt, 49, has navigated the tenures of the four prime ministers she has served under, keeping her distance from Boris Johnson’s scandal-ridden time in power and staying in cabinet under Theresa May to make her support for Brexit felt. This is the second time she is running for the top job, after just missing out on the final two in the contest to become the…