Boris Johnson becomes UK's new prime minister

China Daily Global | Updated: 2019-07-24 22:36

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II welcomes newly elected leader of the Conservative party, Boris Johnson during an audience in Buckingham Palace, London on July 24, 2019, where she invited him to become Prime Minister and form a new government. [Photo/VCG]

Boris Johnson has officially become the United Kingdom's new prime minister after formally being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government.

Johnson met the queen in Buckingham Palace in a tradition known as "kissing hands" a few minutes after Theresa May visited the monarch to formally tender her resignation.

The Oxford-educated ex-journalist and former mayor of London will now attend to the task of assembling a new Cabinet around him, a process that could take several days.

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