What awaits Liz Truss when she walks through the doors of Downing Street?
Having been formally appointed as prime minister, the new leader heads to 10 Downing Street - their new workplace and new home. Here they will make their first prime ministerial speech with the aim of explaining what they want to do in government.
David Cameron didn't have much luck. The back and forth negotiations for his coalition government, and the timing of his predecessor's departure meant the Conservative leader had to give a speech as dusk set in - not ideal for his spin doctors.Downing Street staff greet a new boss with applause, but they will have just bid farewell to a predecessor
In his book about New Labour - Servants of the People - journalist Andrew Rawnsley recounts an extended, more brutal version of the story - Mr Blair says he is sorry to which the weeping employee replies "You're not sorry at all, you meant this to happen." "It was a rollercoaster of a day," she says recalling how staff had to adjust to the different style of their new boss. He was practising cricket strokes and bowling techniques in the office," she says. "He was definitely being playful, whatever else Margaret Thatcher was, she didn't tend to be playful.
Mrs May's team also faced the challenge of trying to put together her new team while the old team were still wandering around the building - that included George Osborne who had been chancellor under Mrs May's predecessor David Cameron
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