Liz Truss will succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister on Tuesday, travelling to Scotland to visit Queen Elizabeth before appointing a new team of senior cabinet ministers to tackle the economic crisis and unite her divided party.

Truss beat rival Rishi Sunak in a Conservative membership vote, promising to cut taxes and help people pay energy bills as Britain faces a deepening energy crisis.

“Thank you for trusting me to lead and contribute to our great country,” Truss said. “I will take bold action to get us all through these difficult times, grow our economy and unlock the UK’s potential.”

She will succeed Boris Johnson, who was forced to announce his resignation in July after months of scandals that saw government support dwindle and ministers resigning to force him out.

Johnson will deliver a speech outside Downing Street before heading to Scotland to meet Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral Castle to formally hand in his resignation.

Truss would follow him and be called by the monarch to form a government, and then address the nation in person before starting to appoint her team of senior ministers.

As the front-runner to succeed him, Truss will become the Conservative Party’s fourth prime minister in seven years.

Since then, Britain has stumbled through the crisis. There is now the prospect of a prolonged recession, with inflation rising further, hitting double digits in July.

While Britain is good at choosing and changing Prime Ministers, the choreography of the day will feel foreign, with Queen Elizabeth meeting Johnson and Truss at Balmoral rather than Buckingham Palace.

The Palace announced last week that the Queen would appoint a new Prime Minister at Balmoral, where she would spend the summer, due to mobility concerns.

Queen Elizabeth, who had 14 Prime Ministers before Truss under her rule, has had to reduce her public appearances in recent months because of the problems. She also spent a night in the hospital last October for an unspecified illness.

As a result, Truss had to travel to Balmoral to be Prime Minister, a round-trip journey of about a thousand miles, rather than the two-mile round-trip that Prime Ministers usually enjoy.