The monarch traditionally receives the new heads of government at Buckingham Palace in Londonbut due to his travel difficulties, the press wondered if he would return to the capital from his summer residence for the announcement, scheduled for Monday, of Boris Johnson’s successor.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liz Trussand former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak have been facing each other since July to become the new leader of the Conservative Party British and therefore Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Succession in the Conservative Party
Some 200,000 members of the formation have been able to vote by mail and online in a process that ends on Friday and whose result will be known on Monday.
Big fan of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and defender of his ultra-liberal policies, Truss, 47, appears as the favorite, with more than 30 points ahead in the polls over Sunak, a 42-year-old former banker billionaire, grandson of Indian immigrants.
The controversial Johnson, 58, resigned in July as leader of the scandal-ridden Conservative Party and will have to leave Downing Street for his replacement to become head of government.
He too will travel to Balmoral, a castle 830 km north of London, on Tuesday to present his formal resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.
This will be the first time that the so-called ‘hands-kissing’ ceremony has taken place outside of London since the then prime minister Winston Churchill received Isabel II in the heathrow airport in 1952 when she became queen on the death of her father while she was away.
Elizabeth II holds a weekly audience with the head of government, which since the start of the pandemic in 2020 has been held mainly by phone. Since then, she spends most of the year in the windsor castle40km west of London, and only travels to Buckingham for major events.
The progressive succession of Elizabeth II
His health has been a matter of growing concern since last October it was learned that he had spent a night in hospital to undergo medical “tests” whose nature was never specified.
Queen Elizabeth’s public appearances are increasingly rare and she is often seen walking with difficulty aided by a cane.
In June, the United Kingdom celebrated in style the Platinum Jubilee70th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Isabel II, who increasingly delegates official functions to her heir, the Prince carlos73 years old.
Source: Ambito
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