Today, the Conservative Party finished voting.
Next week Great Britain will get a new prime minister – the minister Voting in the second round of the election between Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak ended on Monday, September 2. And the results of the Conservative Party leadership contest will be announced at 12:30 (11:30 GMT) on Monday, September 5.
The transfer of power from Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the new minister takes place according to a certain procedure. On Tuesday, September 6, breaking with tradition, the appointment of the new prime minister will take place at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where Queen Elizabeth spends the summer, and not at Buckingham Palace in London, writes Reuters.
It is expected that Johnson will first make a statement in Downing Street in the early hours of Tuesday morning before traveling to Scotland to tender his resignation to the Queen, which is expected at midday.
Either Truss or Sunak will meet the Queen and ask to form a government .
As soon as a new prime minister is appointed, the Court Circular, the official record of royal meetings, will record that “the prime minister kissed hands on appointment”.
< p>Queen Elizabeth has had 14 prime ministers during her 70-year reign.
Tras or Sunak will fly back to London to deliver the Downing Street speech, which is expected around 4:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. Greenwich).
Then the new prime minister will appoint a cabinet. The new team of ministers will meet on Wednesday morning before the prime minister arrives in the Commons at midday (11am GMT) for his first one-on-one prime ministerial interview with opposition Labor leader Keir Starmer.
Earlier, Liz Truss said that if she is elected as the country's prime minister, she will have her first telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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