Theresa May is officially in line to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, after fellow Tory Andrea Leadsom announced she was taking her horse out of the running and David Cameron announced his immediate departure.
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Media reports say they were introduced at a Conservative disco by Benazir Bhutto, another student who would later go on to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Gesturing across the room and up to his wife, Samantha, watching from the gallery, he said: “I will miss the roar of the crowd, I will miss the barbs from the opposition, but I will be willing you on”.
I would also like to pay tribute to David Cameron for the leadership that he has shown our party and our country.
“That’s what I think a lot of people expect and hope and call for”, he said in Brussels, adding that further delays would prolong damaging uncertainty for the economy. Johnson led the campaign to take Britain out of the European Union, but never formally entered the leadership race because of dwindling support among his party’s lawmakers.
As for Labour, today’s session gives Corbyn the chance to send Cameron packing with a knife in his chest as well as drum up his own support ahead of the party’s leadership contest.
He found time to congratulate Wimbledon victor Andy Murray and other British players there, and rebuffed rumors that he does not like Downing St.’s resident cat, Larry – “I do!” She has grown in confidence and stature after six years in the limelight, projecting authority in front of TV cameras that once made her nervous.
She has also said she will appoint a “Brexit minister” to oversee negotiations with the EU.
In April, Larry gained some company in the form of another government cat, named Palmerston after Britain’s 19th century foreign minister and PM, Lord Palmerston.
Mr Cameron will tender his resignation to the Queen after PMQs on Wednesday.
As home secretary, May has earned a reputation as a reliable, even-tempered minister who capably ran a sprawling department responsible for counter-terrorism policy, policing, immigration, border control and drug policy. She has the tough task of calming the country and global financial markets after the upheaval that has followed Brexit vote. “Brexit means Brexit and we’re going to make a success of it”, the spokesperson said.
“She will be an excellent Prime Minister”.
In her brief, successful leadership campaign, she took a more populist stance somewhat at odds with her “law and order” image.
Grayling, the Leader of the House of Commons, said there was no hurry to invoke Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, which will formally launch the process of separation and start the clock ticking on a two-year countdown to Britain’s actual departure.
Sky Bet has placed odds of just 6/4 on Article 50 – the two-year notice period the United Kingdom must give to leave the European Union – being triggered in “2018 or later or not at all”.
“It will surely be dwarfed by this giant, nation-changing misstep, one guaranteed to scar the country for decades and diminish his place in the history books”. Her plan had been embarking on a tour of Britain to win support for her leadership bid.
Wednesday’s newspapers offered mixed judgments of Cameron, a politician toppled by his decision to call a referendum on European Union membership – which he then lost.
Discussing the challenges which lay ahead for the new Prime Minister in an article for The Telegraph, the former Tory leader and senior Leave campaigner has called on Mrs.
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Meanwhile Jean-Claude Juncker’s spokesman insisted that the European commission chief and former Luxembourg PM “can cope” with negotiations with May, who has been touted in London as a “bloody hard woman”.
