After a bitter eight week lengthy marketing campaign, the Conservative Celebration will announce its new chief – who will change into prime minister – on Monday.
That is how the subsequent 72 hours are roughly resulting from play out.
Monday
At 12.30pm the winner of the management race shall be revealed at an occasion on the Queen Elizabeth II Convention Centre in Westminster.
Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will study who has received – extensively anticipated to be Truss – a couple of minutes earlier than the result’s made public.
The venue, a brief stroll from parliament and Downing Avenue, was additionally the place Jeremy Corbyn was introduced as Labour chief in 2015.
However the brand new Tory chief is not going to take over as prime minister instantly.
Tuesday
This shall be Boris Johnson’s final day in workplace as PM. Within the early morning, round 8.30am, he’ll ship a farewell speech in Downing Avenue.
Johnson will then fly from London to Aberdeen and make his technique to Balmoral to see the Queen and resign.
The Queen will then meet with the brand new Tory chief and appoint them prime minister.
Truss – or Sunak if he pulls off a spectacular upset – will then fly to London and ship their first speech as PM outdoors No.10 at about 4pm.
It’s then anticipated the that the brand new cupboard shall be shaped over the course of the subsequent few hours.
Wednesday
Parliament returns from its lengthy summer time recess this week, which suggests the brand new PM will face Labour chief Keir Starmer at PMQs after about solely 24-hours within the job.
Later within the week
Truss has promised to disclose inside one week of taking workplace how she’s going to take care of rising vitality payments.
However the seemingly incoming PM has not mentioned what kind any assistance will take or given a exact date when she’s going to unveil any plan.
