Former British prime minister Liz Truss has said that the UK will see "brighter days" during her final speech as leader outside her Downing Street office.
Ms Truss said that she learned from her short spell in the role that leaders must be "bold" as she spoke of cutting taxes in her final speech from Downing Street.
During a brief address, Ms Truss celebrated reversing the national insurance increase imposed by Rishi Sunak when he was chancellor.
"We simply cannot afford to be a low growth country where the government takes up an increasing share of our national wealth and where there are huge divides between different parts of our country. We need to take advantage of our Brexit freedoms to do things differently," she said.
Ms Truss wished Mr Sunak "every success for the good of our country".
"Our country continues to battle through a storm but I believe in Britain. I believe in the British people and I know that brighter days lie ahead," she said.
Following her brief speech, Ms Truss was applauded by those gathered on Downing Street, including Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey, as she finished her speech.
She proceeded with her husband Hugh O'Leary and two daughters, who had watched her speech from behind her outside Number 10.
Ms Truss became Britain's shortest-serving prime minister in history after King Charles accepted her resignation in Buckingham Palace after just 49 days in office.
Mr Sunak will be appointed as the UK's next prime minister later today, with one of his first tasks in the role being the building of a new cabinet that might unite a fractious Conservative party.
