with her majesty, she will become the 56th uk prime minister the third woman in number ten. labour s deputy leader, angela rayner, says mrjohnson has missed opportunities to fix problems after the last few months. we ve seen borisjohnson going around having his holidays, and enjoying himself, when the rest of the country have been absolutely petrified. i have got businesses locally who have been there since prewar, who are saying that they will not be able to survive. hello and welcome from downing street where later today, liz truss will enter the famous door at number ten as the uk s new prime minister, after being announced yesterday as leader of the conservative party. the man she ll take over from, borisjohnson, has arrived in aberdeenshire to meet the queen in balmoral and formally resign from office. earlier this morning, here in downing street, he delivered a farewell speech extolling his own record as prime minister and calling on the conservative party to get
politically still the right thing, regional inequality is the inequality people in this country can most about injuries and pole of conservative voters say they care about levelling up more than brexit, it is absolutely the right agenda and a recent poll of conservative voters. i m pleased to see liz truss fully committed to northern powerhouse rail and she has committed to the purchase set out by the northern research group including offering full devolution across the uk and empowering our metro mayors further, those are welcome initial purchase, the two areas which i would implore her to go further, firstly as an investment, so far we have seen a very piecemeal and low level approach to investing to level up, businesses want investment in skills, homes in the north need insulating, we need to retrofit in, and secondly there is the need for