Liz Truss is officially the new British prime minister

Liz Truss has officially become PM. She flew to Scotland to meet the Queen on Tuesday, the final, formal step in her ascension to prime minister. She beat rival Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership contest on Monday after a weeks-long campaign.

Shortly before Truss’s meeting with the Queen, Boris Johnson had to make an altogether more humbling appointment. He tendered his resignation to the monarch to clear the path for Truss to take over; weeks ago, he was forced to quit after his lawmakers lost confidence in his scandal-ridden premiership.

Johnson said goodbye in a defiant, at times bitter speech outside Downing Street, during which he nodded to the lawmakers who moved to oust him by suggesting that they “changed the rules” to do so. He declined to apologize for the scandals over honesty and integrity that sunk his tenure.

The motorcade transporting the outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street

The new Prime Minister is back in London after her trip to Scotland. She’ll go straight to Downing Street and is expected to make a statement outside its famous black door (or, if the weather has its say, inside the building.)

A new Cabinet will be named. Speculation is rife about who will take senior roles in Truss’s first Cabinet. She’ll be expected to promote many allies who backed her leadership campaign. Kwasi Kwarteng and Suella Braverman are tipped for promotions; two Johnson loyalists, Nadine Dorries and Priti Patel, have quit.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and new Conservative Party leader and Britain’s Prime Minister-elect Liz Truss meet at Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland

Outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks outside Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022 before heading to Balmoral in Scotland, where he will announce his resignation to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.