Liz Truss Is Officially Prime Minister – NRK Urix – Foreign News & Documentaries

Liz Truss offesielt blitt statsminister i Storbritannia. Her tar hun i hånden til Dronning Elizabeth.

Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth has accepted Boris Johnson’s resignation. On Tuesday morning, Johnson gave his farewell speech in Downing Street.

– That’s it guys. Thank you to everyone in the government and thank you to everyone who cared for me and my family for the past three years. Including Dylan’s dog, he says.

– The wand will eventually be handed over to a new conservative leader. I say to my conservative colleagues: It’s time for politics to be for the people. He says this is a tough time for the economy, and a tough time for families in the country.

On Monday, it became clear that Liz Truss would be Britain’s new prime minister. Truss became the 15th British Prime Minister during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Johnson also said during the speech that he supports Liz Truss and the new government.

– I’m like a rocket that did its job. I am now carefully re-atmospheric and invisibly shining in a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean.

The outgoing British Prime Minister is asking politicians to do like Dylan the dog and Larry the cat

to Scotland

For the first time recently – since 1885 – the outgoing prime minister will be dismissed and the new prime minister’s official appointment to a location other than Buckingham Palace. It’s because of the Queen’s health.

Balmoral Castle, Queen Elizabeth, Scotland

Balmoral Castle in Scotland. It has been nearly 140 years since the outgoing prime minister resigned and the official appointment of the new prime minister is taking place at a location other than Buckingham Palace.

Photo: Paul/Reuters

So that you do not have to make the journey from Scotland to London, the new and old leader of the country will instead make the journey to it.

Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Tuesday around 11:20am local time. Johnson and his wife, Carrie, spent about 40 minutes with the Queen, according to Sky News.

Boris Johnson arrives at Queen Elizabeth's Balmoral Castle to formally step down as Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson arrives at Balmoral Castle in Scotland to formally step down as Prime Minister.

Photo: Andrew Milligan/AP

I had to get off

After a long period of chaos in British politics, Johnson announced in July that he was stepping down as prime minister.

There were many scandals that forced Johnson to resign. Among other things was party street And sex scandals among Johnson’s Conservative MPs are some of the reasons.

He was interim prime minister while the Conservative Party was working on appointing a new leader and prime minister. Throughout the summer, Truss and his opponent Rishi Sunak campaigned. The deadline for voting expired before the end of the week.

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