Liz Truss’s cupboard is assembly in Downing Street to pay tribute to the Queen.
Plenty of senior ministers, lots of whom had been solely appointed this week, together with Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Education Secretary Kit Malthouse, have arrived for the gathering.
A Number 10 spokesperson informed Sky News: “The only item [on the agenda] is paying tribute to Queen.”
The gathering comes earlier than a particular session of parliament, beginning at noon, through which MPs and friends will share their recollections and reward for the monarch, who died at Balmoral on Thursday aged 96.
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Ms Truss grew to become the Queen’s fifteenth prime minister when she was appointed at Balmoral on Tuesday.
The assembly grew to become the final public look of the monarch.
Later on Friday, Ms Truss is predicted to fulfill with the King when he returns to London from Scotland, the place he had been for the reason that Queen’s well being deteriorated.
On Thursday night time, after 48 hours within the position, the prime minister gave an announcement on the steps of Number 10, describing the Queen as “the rock on which modern Britain was built”.
Ms Truss added: “Britain is the great country it is today because of her. She was the very spirit of Britain, and that spirit will endure.”
She additionally stated the British folks “must come together as a people” to assist the King and “to help him bear the awesome responsibility that he now carries for us all”.
Ms Truss ended her speech by saying: “God save the King.”
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Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour chief, additionally marked the passing of “a remarkable sovereign” on Thursday night time, saying: “Above the clashes of politics, she stood not for what the nation fought over, but what it agreed upon.
“So as our nice Elizabethan period involves an finish, we are going to honour the late Queen’s reminiscence by retaining alive the values of public service she embodied.”
Both Ms Truss and Sir Keir are anticipated to guide the tributes within the Commons later, which is able to proceed into Saturday.
Source: information.sky.com”