Mrs May arrived at Downing Street from Buckingham Palace, where she officially accepted the Queen’s invitation to form a new government.
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“I came into Downing Street to confront our problems as a country and lead people through hard decisions so we could reach better times”, he said.
With her husband, Philip, standing behind her, May said: “The government I lead will be driven, not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours”.
The new Prime Minister believes that numerous people who voted in the recent referendum to leave the European Union were motivated by anger against the U.K.’s elites. He said that he hoped they would meet “in the near future”.
“The queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Boris Johnson MP as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs”, Downing Street said in a statement. The normally raucous prime minister’s questions turned into a friendly session in which he was praised for cutting unemployment, funding the National Health Service, and improving educational opportunities.
Like Mr Cameron, Mrs May campaigned to remain in the European Union but has said she will respect the will of the people, as expressed in 23 June’s referendum, saying: “Brexit means Brexit”.
Britain’s new prime minister will swiftly begin drawing up her new top team and is expected to increase the number of women in government.
He said it had been the “greatest honour of my life” to serve as prime minister over the last six years and as Tory leader for nearly eleven years.
“As I once said, I was the future once”, Cameron said.
Theresa May has become Britain’s new prime minister Wednesday after meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
“On all the phone calls, the prime minister emphasised her commitment to delivering the will of the British people to leave the European Union”, a spokeswoman for May said, according to a Reuters news agency report.
Removal vans were seen on Tuesday as Mr Cameron, wife Samantha and children Nancy, Arthur and Florence, packed up at their home since 2010 and prepared to return to a life outside the gates to Downing Street. Cameron poked fun at the leadership turmoil going on in the Labour Party, telling Corbyn that the Tories have had “resignation, nomination, competition and coronation” while Labour is still working out its leadership rules. Cameron announced his resignation after voters rejected his appeal to stay in the 28-nation bloc, and May, the former home secretary, became Conservative Party leader Monday after an abbreviated contest in which her only remaining rival dropped out.
She said that Britain will forge “a bold new positive role” in the world.
But she kept a low profile, emerging relatively unscathed after the vote and presenting herself as the leader who could unify a nation deeply split by the referendum.
The list will be updated as new appointments are made. “It’s not been an easy journey, and of course we’ve not got every decision right”, said former Prime Minister David Cameron, leaving office four years earlier than he’d planned.
European president Jean-Claude Juncker was among the first to write to the new PM to congratulate her and press her to start Brexit negotiations urgently.
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He backed a “Remain” vote in the European Union referendum.
