France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told Europe 1 radio that Johnson had “lied a lot to the British people” during the Brexit referendum campaign and now had “his back against the wall”.
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Similarly, the head of the inter-party group on Russian Federation in the British Parliament, Sir Edward Lee believes that Johnson will most likely seek a “constructive relationship” with Russian Federation, according to RIA Novosti.
“I was very pleased to receive a phone call from Secretary (John) Kerry of the United States who totally agreed with that analysis”.
“With his new responsibilities we are expecting a more positive attitude from Mr. Johnson”, said the official of the new British minister, who had a Turkish great-grandfather.
Johnson had been in the running to be the new prime minister after David Cameron’s resignation following the country’s vote to leave the European Union but dropped out of the race early on.
In a short session with reporters outside the British Foreign Office on Thursday, Johnson shrugged off in his typically colourful fashion the European expressions of horror at his appointment.
Ladbrokes puts the odds of the blonde bombshell leaving first at 4/1, while former leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom is second at 6/1, followed by eurosceptic Brexit secretary, David Davis, at 7/1. It also reinforces a promise she made outside 10 Downing St. on Wednesday: “We will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us”. He says Obama is confident the US will keep working to strengthen relations “irrespective of specific personalities”.
May came to power with a reputation for acting with careful calculation, but with her choice of the voluble, publicity-craving Johnson as Britain’s representative on the world stage, she appears to have thrown her customary caution to the winds.
Britain has been one of the most vocal supporters of punitive European Union sanctions imposed on Russian Federation over its role in the Ukraine crisis and of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation beefing up its military presence in the Baltic States and Poland to deter Russian Federation.
In a move that shocked world leaders, she announced on July 13 that Johnson would serve as the new Foreign Secretary, the BBC reports.
That discussion was constructive, Mr Turnbull said on Sunday.
He said it’s “critical that negotiations take place in a pragmatic and transparent and smooth manner, where both sides demonstrate flexibility in order to produce results that are the right outcome, that have mutually acceptable and… amicable outcomes”.
Australia has called for a free trade deal with Britain following its exit from the European Union (EU), the BBC reported on Sunday.
The French minister said he needs a negotiating partner who is “clear, credible and reliable” for the upcoming negotiations on Britain’s stated desire to leave the 28-nation EU.
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Newly appointed Treasury chief Philip Hammond, meanwhile, sought to reassure the markets and the public, saying there was no need for an emergency national budget, despite the question marks hanging over the British economy following the referendum.
