Preview of handover of power in UK government

A summer of campaigning by the two candidates vying to become Britain's next prime minister comes to an end Friday ahead of a leadership announcement on Monday. That decision - made by only about 180,000 party voters, not the country's whole electorate - couldn't come soon enough.

Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London, said, neither Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak wanted to come forward with detailed plans, partly because they are reluctant to promise anything they couldn't deliver as the economic outlook continues to worsen.