“On day one of Obama’s administration it was returned, without ceremony, to the British embassy in Washington”, Johnson wrote in the Sun newspaper.
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Cher has apologised on social media for confusing Tony Abbott with former UKIP leader Nigel Farage.
Diplomatic is not a word often associated with Boris Johnson, new British Prime Minister Theresa May’s surprise choice for foreign minister.
The music legend later tweeted she was a “twit” for confusing Mr Abbott, with Mr Farage.
“The Conservative Party is internally very divided and very bitter in many ways, so I think a period of consolidating the party internally will be her priority”.
Lots of followers brought the error to her attention.
For the record, this is Farage, the man Cher thought she was referring to in the photograph above.
Former energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd has been promoted in May’s new Cabinet as Home Secretary, the portfolio previously held by May herself, with Eurosceptic David Davis being made in charge of a new department for Exiting the European Union and being dubbed “Brexit minister”.
Well she certainly has done that, wasting no time in announcing the most senior jobs in her cabinet, the first appointment only an hour or so after she walked in.
New finance minister Philip Hammond who took over from George Osborne, a stalwart of Cameron’s government who fell by the wayside in the transition, confirmed there would be “no emergency budget”.
May herself had sided with Cameron in trying to keep Britain inside the European Union, so needed to reach out to the winning Leave side in order to heal divisions in the ruling party and show her commitment to respecting the popular vote. His appointment as foreign secretary was unexpected.
“Brexit means Brexit” has quickly become her new mantra.
Johnson stood by his comments that the European Union was “an attempt to do this by different methods” despite a storm of critiques. Groups such as Conservative Friends of Russian Federation and Conservative Friends of the Chinese, both of which have many prominent parliamentarians as members, already lobby openly on behalf of those countries inside the United Kingdom political system.
“We have just played a game of street rugby with a bunch of kids and I accidentally flattened a 10-year-old, on TV unfortunately”, Johnson said afterward.
“At this incredibly important time … it is extraordinary that the new prime minister has chosen someone whose career is built on making jokes”, said Tim Farron, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats.
“As far as I can interpret the psychology of the rule, which has only been applied since 9/11, it is part of America’s new them-and-us mentality, the Manichaean division of the world into Americans and non-Americans, obliterating any category in between”.
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“We will do everything we can to give you more control over your lives”.
