Live updates here as a new prime minister is to be announced.
Image caption: The world's media have gathered in Downing StreetRishi Sunak will be told he has lost.
Ten minutes later, at 12:37, after a short speech from the Conservative Party Chairman Andrew Stephenson, the Chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady will publicly announce the result. How can we be so certain of the outcome? There would, after all, be the biggest omelette of all time plastered across the faces of people like me if Sunak were victorious.Throughout the summer, Truss has had a commanding lead in the opinion polls. So commanding, even if those polls were a bit wrong, it wouldn't change the outcome.
Team Sunak don't dispute this, although some supporters do think his margin of defeat may be narrower than some of those polls have suggested.And then at 13:00 - in other words about ten minutes later - what was described to me as"onboarding" begins in Downing Street.The prime minister-elect, as Liz Truss will be by then, will have another day to wait until she turns up.
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