Liz Truss is Britain's new PM

In a ceremony with the queen, Liz Truss becomes prime minister of the United Kingdom.

After months of upheaval, Britain is relying on traditions that have been around for a long time as Prime Minister Boris Johnson hands over power and a lot of economic and political problems to Prime Minister Liz Truss on Tuesday.

Liz Truss, the leader of the new Conservative Party, became prime minister of the UK on Tuesday. Queen Elizabeth II asked her to put together a new government.

Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister who is leaving office, went to Scotland on Tuesday to see Queen Elizabeth II and give her his official resignation.

Johnson will meet with the queen two months after he said he would step down and one day after Truss became the new leader of her party.

"I'm like one of those rocket boosters that has done its job," Johnson said as he left his office Tuesday morning to go to the royal Balmoral estate.

"I will now slowly re-enter the atmosphere and land in some remote part of the Pacific where no one will see me."

In the past, the official handover of power has taken place at Buckingham Palace in London. This time, however, it will take place in Scotland to speed up the process and limit the 96-year-old queen's travel.

Johnson said that he will leave politics and compared himself to a Roman leader who quit his job and went back to farming.

"Like Cincinnatus, I'm going back to my work," said Johnson.

"I will give this government nothing but my strongest support," he said.