🇬🇧 Boris Johnson on Tuesday promised unswerving support for his successor LizTruss, as he left Downing Street for the final time as British prime minister to tender his resignation. UK PrimeMinister Politics
Johnson, whose tenure was dominated by Brexit and Covid and cut short by scandal, bid farewell to cheers and applause from supporters before heading for an audience with Queen Elizabeth II.
But both Johnson and Truss face a 1,000-mile round trip to the head of state's remote Balmoral retreat in the Scottish Highlands. Truss, 47, was announced winner of an internal vote of Conservative party members on Monday, after a gruelling contest that began in July. The appointments are due to be finalised before she hosts her first cabinet meeting and faces questions in parliament on Wednesday.Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to become finance minister, with attorney general Suella Braverman moved to the tricky brief of home secretary, and James Cleverly to foreign affairs.
Truss, who touts herself as a free-market liberal, has promised tax cuts to stimulate growth, despite warnings that greater borrowing could make inflation worse.The contrast to her beaten leadership rival Rishi Sunak's more cautious approach has opened another rift in the Conservative party that was already divided by Johnson's departure.
Despite repeated accusations of corruption and cronyism during his tenure, and an unprecedented police fine for breaking his own lockdown rules, Johnson is said to be smarting at having to leave.
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