David Davis has been put in charge of exit negotiations as new Brexit minister, while Liam Fox has responsibility for negotiating new trade agreements outside the bloc.
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May’s spokesman said she had emphasised in her calls, which also included Irish premier Enda Kenny, that she would implement the referendum decision.
On the question of Britain’s future relations with the EU, Mr. Davis said the ideal and “most likely outcome” is continued free trade access to the single market.
He added: “This and it is an absolutely critical moment in certainly England’s history, but also in the U.S.-U.K. relationship so absolutely we’re committed to working productively going forward”.
Defence minister Michael Fallon also kept his post.
Mr Davis said: “We will get a generous settlement for European Union migrants here now and a generous settlement for British citizens in the European Union”.
FILE – London Mayor Boris Johnson speaks at a Leave campaign event in Dartford, Britain, March 11, 2016.
Although Mr Penning served alongside Mrs May in the Home Office, he stressed that she would distribute government jobs based on who was the best person for the role rather than on alliances.
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, his wife Samantha and their children Nancy, Florence and Elwen, from left, leave 10 Downing Street, in London, July 13, 2016.
Johnson, who will travel to Brussels for an European Union foreign ministers summit beginning on Monday, insisted the country could now become “Global Britain”. Rudd replaces May as home secretary and is responsible for Britain’s internal affairs as the Brexit process gets underway.
Lesser-known than Johnson but at least as important to Britain’s future is 67-year-old David Davis, the new Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.
The appointment of Johnson has raised Mrs. May’s profile among the Conservative Party’s pro-Brexit base.
“I can not think of anything more foolish” than to boycott “a country that when all is said and done is the only democracy in the region, the only place that has in my view a pluralist open society”, Johnson said.
To May, who succeeded Cameron on Wednesday, Putin “stressed the conviction that the preservation and augmentation of the significant potential of Russian-British cooperation in various fields that has been accumulated for a long time is in the fundamental interests of the two countries”.
The traditional spectacle of seeing MPs summoned to Downing Street for hiring and firing discussions with the Prime Minister will continue on Thursday amid speculation that Mrs May could reorganise government departments.
Theresa May’s new government has already begun preparing the ground for ground-breaking free trade deals with America and Australia potentially worth billions of pounds to the British economy.
Britain’s former Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, who imposed the travel restrictions following the Sousse attack of past year, has been promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer, often seen as the number two job in government. He called his six years as prime minister the “greatest honor” of his life.
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Chris Grayling declined to say whether he was expecting Mrs May to reward him with a senior Cabinet post, telling the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “I will do whatever – if anything – she asks me to do”.
