Monday 24 June 2019 12:40 pm | Updated: Monday 24 June 2019 2:11 pm

New Prime Minister to take power on 24 July

By: Joe Curtis

FILE PHOTO (EDITORS NOTE: COMPOSITE OF IMAGES – Image numbers 1044488356,612439836- GRADIENT ADDED) In this composite image a comparison has been made between Tory Leadership nominees Boris Johnson (L)and Jeremy Hunt. The Conservative party will vote on who will be their next leader with the result announced late July. ***LEFT IMAGE*** BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 02: Boris Johnson speaks at a Conservative home fringe meeting on day three of the Conservative Party Conference on October 2, 2018 in Birmingham, England. The former Foreign Secretary makes his Brexit speech to the Conservative Home fringe meeting audience today. This is seen as a direct challenge to the Prime Minister’s much maligned Chequers Deal. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) ***RIGHT IMAGE*** BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 04: Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt delivers a speech on the third day of the Conservative Party Conference 2016 at the ICC Birmingham on October 4, 2016 in Birmingham, England at the ICC Birmingham on October 4, 2016 in Birmingham, England. Ministers and senior Party members will address delegates throughout the day with a number of speeches discussing ‘a society that works for everyone’. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Britain’s new Prime Minister will be revealed on Tuesday 23 July, it is reported.

The Prime Minister will then take power the next day on 24 July, the Sun reports.

Officials will finish counting Conservative party postal votes on Monday, 22 July, the newspaper said.

The next day either Jeremy Hunt or Boris Johnson will be anointed the new Prime Minister.

They will visit the Queen and move into Number 10 Downing Street on Wednesday, 24 July, the Sun said.

Current Prime Minister Theresa May will remain in power for one last round of Prime Minister’s Questions, the Sun’s sources said.

May is yet to hold discussions with her potential successors to discuss the transition, but a senior Conservative source told the Sun she would agree to these timings.

“We’ll have a new leader on Tuesday July 23, and a new PM by the end of Wednesday afternoon, as long as Theresa is amenable to that, and nobody thinks she won’t be,” they said.

Tory chair Brandon Lewis is set to reveal the timetable for the end of the Tory leadership contest later today.

Hunt and Johnson are currently engaged in various hustings around the country as they vie for power.

Sky has cancelled a head-to-head debate between the candidates scheduled for tomorrow after Johnson refused to take part, however.

Instead Sky will invite Hunt and Johnson to a debate on 1 July.

It comes just hours after Hunt called Johnson a “coward” for dodging live TV debates.

“It is very disrespectful to say that you’re not going to appear in any head-to-head debates in the two weeks when (party members) can see you before they’ve actually voted,” Hunt added.

A filmed debate on ITV on 9 July will take place once Tory party members have already received their postal ballots.

Johnson said today “we are not going to bottle” Brexit by delaying it past the 31 October deadline, with or without a deal.

Hunt has pledged to try to leave the EU with a withdrawal agreement.