The British chief leaves his Downing Road workplace for the final time to formally provide his resignation to the queen.
The UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has left his Downing Road workplace for the final time earlier than heading to Scotland to formally provide his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.
The British chief, who introduced his intention to step down two months in the past, is predicted to fulfill with the queen in a while Tuesday at her Balmoral property to start the switch of energy to Liz Truss.
Truss, who was named chief of the ruling Conservative Celebration on Monday, can be appointed prime minister throughout her personal viewers with the queen a short while later.
Talking outdoors No 10 Downing Road, Johnson mentioned his insurance policies had given the nation the financial energy to assist folks climate the power disaster earlier than he signed off together with his typical bluster.
“I’m like a type of booster rockets that has fulfilled its perform,” Johnson mentioned earlier than getting right into a automobile and leaving the gates of Downing Road for the final time as prime minister.
“I’ll now be gently re-entering the ambiance and splashing down invisibly in some distant and obscure nook of the Pacific.”
Conservative vote
Truss, 47, takes workplace a day after the Conservative Celebration’s 172,000 members elected her to guide their celebration.
On Tuesday afternoon, she is predicted to make her first speech as chief of a nation of 67 million folks anxious about hovering power payments and a looming winter of recession and labour unrest.
These issues have festered for the previous two months as a result of Johnson had no authority to make main coverage selections after asserting his plan to step down.
Chatting with Conservative Celebration members on Monday, Truss promised to “ship” on the financial system, the power disaster and the overstretched healthcare system, although she provided few specifics on her insurance policies.
Al Jazeera’s Paul Brennan, reporting from London, mentioned that as Truss settles behind the prime ministerial desk, the political tempo will speed up instantly.
“Pressing points are screaming for consideration … The primary precedence at 10 Downing Road is undoubtedly Britain’s deepening cost-of-living disaster, and central to that’s the price of fuel and electrical energy,” he mentioned.
“IMF knowledge says Britain is being hit tougher than every other western European nation by huge gas worth rises. In 2021, a typical UK family paid round $1,400 a yr for power. By early subsequent yr, a mean invoice may hit $7,600 a yr,” he added.
“It means gas poverty for tens of millions of individuals. The brand new prime minister says she has a plan.”
On Sunday, Truss promised to unveil her plans for tackling the cost-of-living disaster inside every week.