During early Wednesday evening the new prime minister is expected to start the task of assembling a new cabinet, with the great offices of state, foreign secretary, home secretary and defense secretary all likely to be among the first to be appointed.
The handing out of jobs, ranging from secretaries of state to junior ministers is expected to take several days before the full team is finalized.
Political commentators say one of the problems for Johnson to navigate, if he wins the contest, will be the arrival of heavyweights such as Hammond, Gauke and Duncan on the back benches in the House of Commons. There, they will no longer be shackled by the assumed rules of collective responsibility, expected of government ministers.
Further down the line, he has vowed to bring Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31, with or without a deal with Brussels.
Pro-Europe Conservatives are already threatening to block a no-deal departure.
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