Boris Johnson to make final speech as PM before Liz Truss meets Queen – UK politics live | Liz Truss

And these are from Beth Rigby, Sky’s political editor, who is also in Downing Street.

It is a bit quieter at Balmoral at the moment, the BBC’s Ben Philip reports.

And these are from Chris Mason, the BBC’s political editor, who is outside Downing Street.

At Downing Street staff have brought out the lectern for Boris Johnson’s farewell speech.

Good morning. Boris Johnson is still prime minister, but he will offer his resignation to the Queen in Balmoral around lunchtime and Liz Truss will be prime minister when she returns to London from her own audience with the Queen. Truss will deliver a speech when she gets back, at around 4pm this afternoon.

A prime minister is never more powerful than on the day they take office and Truss’s first task once she gets to work will be to finalise her cabinet appointments. A PM can always sack ministers who obstruct their wishes, but it is easier to appoint like-minded individuals in the first place. Truss has had a lot of time to consider these appointments and, as we report, we are expecting to see a cabinet of loyalists. Tories urging her to make her team representative of all wings of the party, including one nation centrists, are likely to be disappointed, and there is speculation that it could end up looking like the most rightwing cabinet in modern times.

But Truss will also have to deliver a speech to the nation to mark her appointment. As my colleague John Crace writes in his sketch, her victory speech yesterday was a dud, and so the pressure is on to raise her game.

First, though, we will hear from Boris Johnson. Here is the agenda for the day.

7.30am: Boris Johnson is due to deliver his final speech as prime minister, from Downing Street, before flying to Balmoral for his audience with the Queen.

11.20am: Johnson is due to arrive at Balmoral, where he will offer his resignation to the Queen.

12.10pm: Liz Truss is due to arrive at Balmoral for her audience with the Queen, where she will be asked to form a government.

4pm: Truss is due to give a speech from Downing Street on her return.

Late afternoon/evening: Truss is due to announce cabinet appointments.

I will be focusing today almost exclusively on the transfer of power at No 10. But in Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, will make a statement to MSPs at 2.20pm about her legislative plans for 2022-23 and we will give that some coverage here. In the Commons the business committee is also taking evidence from business groups, thinktanks and other experts on the cost of living crisis.

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