Boris Johnson meets the queen, formally becoming the prime minister

Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May formally tendered her resignation to Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday as her successor Boris Johnson prepares to take over.



May arrived at the palace after earlier urging Johnson to deliver Brexit “in a way that works for the whole United Kingdom”

Shortly afterwards, the Queen received in audience Boris Johnson and requested him to form a new Administration.

Johnson accepted Her Majesty's offer and kissed her hands upon his appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.

"We aren't going to wait 99 days because the British people have had enough of waiting. My job is to serve you, the people. The people are our bosses. My job is to make your streets safer, and we're going to begin with another 20,000 new police on the streets," Boris Johnson says, in a combative and confident first statement as Prime Minister.

"Those critics are wrong. The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters, they are going to get it wrong again. The people who bet against Britain are going to loose their shirts," Johnson says, adding Britain will leave the EU in October, "no ifs, no buts."