David Davis, a Leave campaigner with a long record of Euroscepticism, was appointed to the key new role of secretary of state for leaving the EU.
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Mrs May began forming her new cabinet shortly after her arrival into 10 Downing Street.
Rudd, who succeeds May in charge of the Home Office, became a lawmaker in 2010 and served as parliamentary private secretary to former finance minister Osborne from 2012 to 2013 before joining the department for energy and climate change where she was promoted to minister in 2015.
May, who had supported Britain’s continued European Union membership, moved quickly to heal divisions sparked by the referendum by appointing leading “Leave” campaigner Johnson to a senior cabinet post.
Another, Liam Fox, was named to head a new worldwide trade department.
May said keeping the “precious” United Kingdom together was also a priority after the referendum, with the devolved Scottish government threatening a second independence vote.
She spoke of the “precious bond” between the nations of the United Kingdom, implicit recognition of the tensions generated by the referendum in which England and Wales chose to quit the European Union, but Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay, raising the possibility of a new Scottish vote on independence.
After making the short journey from Buckingham Palace to her new residence with her husband Philip, she promised to build a “country that works for everyone” and not the “privileged few”.
“Based on the public comments we’ve seen from the incoming prime minister, she intends to pursue a course that’s consistent with the prescription that President Obama has offered”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech after arriving at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain on July 13, 2016.
Giving up one of his allotted six questions to pay tribute to Cameron, Corbyn asked him thank his mother for her fashion advice – a nod to a previous rowdy exchange where Cameron said his mother would want the often unkempt Corbyn to “put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the national anthem”. “We will rise to the challenge”.
The palace soon confirmed that Cameron had “tendered his resignation as prime minister and First Lord of the Treasury, which her majesty was graciously pleased to accept”.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has received a standing ovation from colleagues at the close of his final session of prime minister’s questions. “I will miss the barbs from the opposition”. “After all, as I once said, I was the future once”.
The flamboyant former Mayor of London was a leading figure in the victorious “Leave” campaign in Britain’s European Union membership referendum last month but has never been a byword for diplomacy.
Mr. Cameron’s decision to step down comes on the heels – and very much because – of the Brexit vote, which he initiated despite his vocal support for remaining in the EU.
The warmth in the House of Commons culminated in loud applause and a standing ovation from his Conservative colleagues for Cameron, 49, who resigned after voters rejected his advice and made a decision to leave the European Union.
May was greeted with a huge cheer as she entered the House of Commons.
The 59-year-old, who has been Cameron’s interior minister for the past six years, had officially backed her boss’s campaign to stay in the EU.
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Cameron will be appearing before Parliament as prime minister for the last time before handing over to successor Theresa May.
