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MPs and peers, among them Liz Truss, have formally retaken their parliamentary oaths to swear allegiance to the new King, followed by another round of tributes in both parliamentary houses to the late monarch.
The first MP to take the revised oath, which refers to the King rather than Queen, was the speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, followed by the two longest-serving MPs, Peter Bottomley and Harriet Harman, then Truss and a dozen or so other senior MPs, mainly ministers, shadow ministers and party leaders.
Others MPs will have a chance to do so when the Commons resumes after the Queen’s funeral.
It followed the privy council meeting on Saturday morning, also attended by Truss and many senior MPs, in which the new King Charles III was proclaimed monarch in a formal ceremony.
There is no necessity for MPs to renew the oath, as the oath they take on entering parliament pledges that they “will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law”.
