The Queen will have the unusual job of dispatching with one prime minister and welcoming another during her annual summer break to Scotland.
Having been declared winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest, Liz Truss will travel to Balmoral Castle on Tuesday to see the monarch and be appointed the UK’s new political leader.
But not before Boris Johnson has resigned in person after his party moved against him in July in the aftermath of Downing Street lockdown parties and for his handling of sexual harassment allegations against one of his ministers.
