May will then enter Number 10 Downing Street as prime minister before the end of the day.
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Mr Cameron will chair a farewell meeting of Cabinet ministers on Tuesday.
Soon after, May will meet Queen Elizabeth and return to Downing Street as the new prime minister tasked with leading Britain out of the EU.
Speaking outside No 10 on Monday, he said: “She is strong, she is competent, she is more than able to provide the leadership that our country is going to need in the years ahead and she will have my full support”.
The interior minister, who takes over Wednesday from David Cameron less than three weeks after Britain’s shock decision to quit the European Union, has vowed to clinch the best possible divorce settlement from Brussels. “I will miss the barbs from the opposition”, Cameron said, promising to watch future exchanges as a regular Conservative lawmaker on the back benches.
So, who is the new prime minister?
Earlier Wednesday, Cameron appeared to be in a jovial mood as he told members of Parliament: “I have addressed 5,500 questions from this dispatch box – I’ll leave it to others to decide how many I’ve answered”.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn has lost the support of most Labour members of Parliament and is facing a challenge from legislator Angela Eagle.
But he won’t be packing everything into the blue vans spotted outside the residence: Officials say Larry the cat will be allowed to stay.
The economic impact of the Brexit vote was immediate and pretty brutal. And he offered the closest thing he has ever given to a mission statement: “I believe that politics is about public service in the national interest”.
A steep rise in immigration from Africa and the Middle East, mainly from Eritrea and Syria, was a key development during May’s tenure as the UK’s home secretary. If May does not succeed in achieving all that has been promised by Brexit champions during the referendum campaign, she is likely to suffer the blowback.
Cameron initially planned to leave office by October to give his ruling Conservative Party enough time to hold a leadership election to determine his successor.
May faces immediate questions on when she plans to trigger Article 50 – the formal procedure for withdrawal from the European Union – which would set a two-year deadline for completing exit negotiations.
He reminded May, who has served as British home secretary since 2010, of her attendance at the Vatican in April 2014 for the launch of the Santa Marta Group, an initiative launched by Pope Francis to help the victims of the human trafficking. “I think she’s a cautious person, and the British political establishment needs to come to terms with this massive decision”.
In the expert’s opinion, expectations that May will follow in the footsteps of the UK’s first female prime minister who led Britain from 1979 to 1990 are exaggerated.
Newspapers offered harsher judgments of a politician toppled by his decision to call a referendum on European Union membership which he then lost. The next prime minister, Theresa May, is seeking to calm the country, and financial markets, after upheaval following the unexpected result.
The British government could potentially strip European Union citizens already living in United Kingdom of their right to stay, David Cameron has said.
Cameron once derided Juncker as a Brussels backroom bureaucrat and tried to block him from becoming commission president.
She is expected to promote women ministers to several senior roles, and Cameron’s long-serving finance minister George Osborne could lose his job, according to media reports.
Whitman said after May’s audience with the queen, she will then be taken to Downing Street where she will assume the role of prime minister.
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“Goodbye Mr. Cameron. Nobody will miss you”.
