Liz Truss ‘hugely honoured’ one of Queen’s last acts was asking her to become PM

Liz Truss has described feeling “massively honoured” that one of many Queen’s “final acts” was formally asking her to grow to be Prime Minister.

She praised the “enormous outpouring of affection and affection” for the late monarch and recognised the “enormous quantity of heat in the direction of” her successor King Charles.

Ms Truss was talking as she flew to New York for a United Nations summit after attending the Queen’s funeral on Monday.

The Queen’s demise got here two days after she formally appointed Ms Truss as Boris Johnson’s successor throughout a gathering in Balmoral Fortress.

In an interview with reporters, Ms Truss stated: “It has been a momentous interval and a interval of nice grief and unhappiness in the UK, and I feel you may have seen an enormous outpouring of affection and affection for her late majesty in addition to an enormous quantity of heat in the direction of King Charles III.

“At present on the funeral we noticed such enormous public assist and I've additionally seen that from world leaders who've come to London in unprecedented numbers.

“From my very own viewpoint, I'm massively honoured to have been invited to kind a authorities by Her Majesty the Queen in one in every of her final acts.

Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Liz Truss throughout an viewers at Balmoral, Scotland, the place she invited the newly elected chief of the Conservative social gathering to grow to be Prime Minister and kind a brand new authorities. The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon, Buckingham Palace has introduced (Jane Barlow/PA)

“Since then, I've had two audiences with His Majesty and what I've seen is a large outpouring of public heat and assist for him and for the entire royal household.”

Ms Truss made an tackle to the nation from Downing Road on September 8, simply because the world was studying of the Queen’s demise after seventy years on the throne.

The Prime Minister praised the assist of civil servants, regardless of having been seen to have created friction with them in current months.

“To start with, I've had essentially the most large assist from the civil servants who’ve labored on the Bridges Secretariat (those that helped plan the Authorities response to the Queen’s demise),” she stated.

Ms Truss, proven within the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace, has famous the ‘enormous quantity of heat in the direction of’ King Charles (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

“I wish to reward the work they’ve carried out, the work the royal family has carried out, the armed forces.

“The best way what has been a really troublesome second for our nation has been dealt with tremendously.”

The Civil Service reward got here amid a fall-out over the swift sacking of Treasury everlasting secretary Sir Tom Scholar shortly after Ms Truss got here to energy.

Amid widespread criticism through the Tory management contest, she deserted plans to chop civil servants’ pay outdoors London.