British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come to Queen Elizabeth II's residence in Scotland to tender his resignation amid a cost-of-living problem. He will be succeeded by Liz Truss.
After a meticulously planned meeting with the monarch at Balmoral that takes place two months after Johnson declared his decision to resign, he will finally vacate his position.
Truss was named leader of the ruling Conservative party on Monday. She will be named prime minister during her meeting with the Queen a short time later, according to AP News.
Before leaving for Scotland early Tuesday morning, Johnson said outside his office on Downing Street that his three-year term had given Britain the economic strength to help people get through the energy crisis. He ended by using his customary strong language.
Mission Completed
Johnson Resignation speech compared himself to a "booster rocket" that has completed its mission: "I will now be gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific.''
Three years ago, Johnson, 58, took over as prime minister after Theresa May's failure to complete Britain's exit from the European Union. Johnson later secured an 80-seat Parliamentary majority by pledging to "get Brexit done."
However, a string of scandals that culminated in the Boris Johnson Resignation of dozens of Cabinet secretaries and lower-level officials in early July drove him out of power.
In Boris Johnson Resignation speech, he made a passing reference to that failure, saying that he was passing the baton to Liz Truss in "what has suddenly become a relay race."
Johnson will soon officially step down when he meets Elizabeth at Balmoral, her summer home in Aberdeenshire.
The transfer of authority will take place at Balmoral for the first time in the Queen's 70-year reign rather than at London's Buckingham Palace. The 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II has mobility issues that have required palace authorities to make choices regarding her travel daily, so the event was relocated to Scotland to offer clarity about the timetable.
A day after being chosen as the Conservative Party's leader by its 172,000 members, Truss, 47, will assume office.
She is scheduled to deliver her inaugural address on Tuesday afternoon before a nation of 67 million people who are concerned about rising energy costs, an impending winter of recession, and labor unrest. Because Johnson lacked the power to make significant policy decisions after declaring his intention to retire, those issues have been allowed to fester for the past two months.
Boris Johnson will have to find a new place to live now that he has given back the keys to 10 Downing Street.
He and his wife Carrie recently purchased a home in the Herne Hill neighborhood of south-east London, according to a recent article in London's Evening Standard, according to a BBC report.
Liz Truss may find it unsettling to see the results of a recent survey as she gets ready to take office as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Poll: Britons Want a General Election
In another update, the majority of Britons prefer that she call a general election right away than wait out the current parliamentary term, which might run another two years, according to a poll reported by CNN.
The survey by Savanta ComRes, which was done before Truss was formally declared the victor of the Conservative leadership race on Monday, found that six out of 10 respondents stated they wanted the opportunity to cast a ballot this year.
Only 18% of respondents felt Truss could bring the nation together, while 50% disagreed. As Truss was getting ready to start her new position, just 18% of respondents indicated they had a good opinion of her; 44% said they had an unfavorable opinion.
The survey's error margin is two percentage points, plus or minus.
Even while past prime ministers have seen a rise in poll ratings after assuming office, the Conservatives' poll numbers have been declining for some months and show no promise of recovering under Truss's leadership.
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