“Having supported Theresa May’s candidacy for the leadership of the Conservative Party, and therefore as our next prime minister, from the outset I am of course pleased that she will, once her position is endorsed by the 1922 Committee and the Board of the Conservative Party, be in a position to take office”, he said.
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Police officers assist a removal van driver as he reverses out from the back entrance of Downing Street, in London, Tuesday, July 12, 2016. Theresa May will become Britain’s new Minister on Wednesday. Andrea Leadsom took 84 votes and Michael Gove took 46, meaning the UK’s next prime minister will be a woman. She says the country needs certainty, not a nine-week leadership race.
May, who would become Britain’s second female Prime Minister after Margaret Thatcher, said “I am honoured and humbled to have been chosen by the Conservative Party to become its leader”.
European Union leaders are also pressing for faster action.
“We get ourselves ready for the negotiation, we decide what kind of relationship we want to negotiate, and then we move ahead and trigger Article 50”.
Following through on the result of the European Union referendum had been a big part of May’s leadership bid – she stressed in a speech on Monday that “Brexit means Brexit”, and reassured Leave voters that Britain will leave the European Union under her premiership.
Article 50 is created to be irreversible once it is invoked, in large part to discourage countries from threatening to leave in an attempt to negotiate more favorable terms.
“There will be no attempts to remain inside the European Union, there will be no attempts to rejoin it by the back door, no second referendum”, May said.
Mr Cameron told colleagues that over the 215 meetings he has chaired, ministers had discussed more than 900 items of Government business, with the PM himself personally leading the discussion on over 150 of those. The process will not be simple: Thousands of treaties and agreements are in place and will have to be unraveled. During 2001 and 2005, Solberg served as Norway’s minister of local government and regional development, and during her tenure was elected as the leader of the Conservative Party in 2004.
This is one of the great unknowns.
“In my experience of dealing with Theresa May, raising important issues affecting our area, such as Operation Stack and border security, I have always found her to be someone who is willing to listen, and act with the authority”. He’s given Ms May the nod to be the one to lead Britain through its post-EU life. This is really the heart of the matter, with much riding – for both sides – on finding some common ground.
Other early decisions facing May as she steps across the Downing Street threshold will include pressing ahead as she has vowed with renewing Britain’s Trident nuclear missile system, the infrastructure spending boost promised by the Treasury and the go-ahead for a massive new nuclear power station at Hinckley Point.
But Leadsom’s sudden pull-out brought the contest to an end and, by the close of the day, May had been proclaimed party leader.
Outlining her commitment to getting tough on “corporate irresponsibility”, she added: ‘We’re the Conservative Party, and yes we’re the party of enterprise, but that does not mean we should be prepared to accept that “anything goes”.
Leadsom says she has concluded she does not have “sufficient support” to win.
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The party is expected to say whether it will to re-open the contest to candidates eliminated in earlier rounds, or declare May the victor unopposed.
