UK awaits new PM as May quits tomorrow

By : Tunde Oyedoyin, London

Date: 23 July 2019 5:21am WAT

A handout picture released by the UK Parliament on May 8, 2019 shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaking during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) session in the House of Commons in London on May 8, 2019. (Photo by Roger Harris / various sources / AFP) / EDITORS NOTE THE IMAGE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED AT SOURCE TO OBSCURE VISIBLE DOCUMENTS - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / ROGER HARRIS / UK Parliament"

The United Kingdom will today know its new premier preparatory to tomorrow’s resignation of Prime Minister Theresa May.

It is expected that by lunchtime, the European nation would have welcomed its new leader, as the Conservatives would have announced the winner of the party’s two-horse race leadership contest between former London Mayor, Boris Johnson, and Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt.

Johnson, a one-time Foreign Secretary himself, has retained the bookies’ favourite to get the keys to 10 Downing Street since May’s tearful decision to leave office was announced on May 24.