Sunak won the Tory leadership contest without a vote being cast after rivals Penny Mordaunt and Boris Johnson dropped out, and will replace Liz Truss in No 10 today.
The handover of power will see Truss, who quit last week after only six weeks in the top job, hold her final Cabinet meeting and give a farewell speech in Downing Street before formally tendering her resignation at Buckingham Palace.
Once she has left, it will be Sunak’s turn to see the king, who will ask him to form an administration.
Sunak is expected to address the nation just before noon, before entering No 10 as the UK’s first Hindu prime minister, the first of Asian heritage, and the youngest for more than 200 years at the age of 42.
The former British chancellor will then turn his attention to assembling a top team that he will hope can return a measure of stability to both the Conservatives and the UK. He has been urged to avoid Truss’s perceived error of appointing loyalists to key roles, with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly calling for the overhauled Cabinet to feature the best ministers.
Sunak will look to build a Cabinet of “all the talents” that will see the political return of the “adults”, according to reports.
Sunak’s ascendency from MP to PM is the fastest in modern political history, having first won the constituency of Richmond in North Yorkshire in 2015.
However, his journey to the top job has not been without its hitches, having been fined alongside Johnson for breaching coronavirus rules and having faced questions over his wife Akshata Murty’s “non-dom” status for tax purposes.
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