New Prime Minister Liz Truss didn't give Rishi Sunak a second glance as she rushed to the stage when her name was announced.
Britain's third ever female in Britain's top job appeared to blank her rival as she walked up to the podium.
She made a speech praising "my friend" Boris Johnson as she accepted her victory in the Tory leadership contest.
She said: "I also want to thank our outgoing leader, my friend, Boris Johnson."
She continued: "Boris, you got Brexit done, you crushed Jeremy Corbyn, you rolled out the vaccine and you stood up to Vladimir Putin.
"You were admired from Kyiv to Carlisle."
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She said it was an honour to be announced as the winner of the Tory leadership contest after a “hard-fought campaign” against Rishi Sunak.
She won with 81,326 votes from the Tory membership, to Rishi Sunak’s 60,399.
That means she took 57 per cent of the vote and becomes the next PM.
Boris Johnson will depart No 10 on Tuesday and Ms Truss will fly to Balmoral to meet the Queen for the formal handover of power.
She will then begin work putting together a response to the energy crisis, with support promised within days.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was one of the first to congratulated Liz Truss on her win.
He tweeted: “I’d like to congratulate our next prime minister Liz Truss as she prepares for office.
“But after 12 years of the Tories all we have to show for it is low wages, high prices, and a Tory cost-of-living crisis.
“Only Labour can deliver the fresh start our country needs.”
