The next PM takes office on Wednesday – and already has his work cut out After 24 hours of formalities that will end on Wednesday afternoon with the Queen inviting the new leader of the Tory party to form a government, the transfer of power from the 76th prime minister of the United Kingdom to the 77th will be a clinical and fairly brutal business. “We have been told we will have to be out of the building – having handed in our phones – and have left through the Cabinet Office within half an hour of proceedings ending at the palace,” said a member of Theresa May’s Downing Street staff. “From that moment, we are out of a job.” Continue reading...