Mrs May arrived at the palace by ministerial vehicle with husband Philip, having set off from the House of Commons only after receiving the signal that predecessor David Cameron’s resignation as PM had been accepted by the Queen and that he had advised the head of state to appoint the former home secretary in his place.
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Mrs May is the UK’s second female prime minister, after Margaret Thatcher.
In a direct message to voters, she said: “I know you are working around the clock, I know you are doing your best and I know that sometimes life can be a struggle”.
He finished by saying: “It has been the greatest honour of my life to serve as PM for the past 6 six years”. “He belongs to the house and staff love him very much, as do I”.
In his final Prime Minister’s Questions at Parliament, outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron opened Wednesday with the quip that “apart from one meeting in the afternoon with the Queen, my diary is remarkably light”. His successor, Conservative Party leader Theresa May, was headed to the palace to meet with the queen.
Theresa May is expected to quickly unveil a new Cabinet lineup, including a minister in charge of implementing Brexit, a British exit from the EU.
The outcome of the UK vote to leave the EU “has created a new situation which the United Kingdom and the European Union will have to address soon”, Juncker said in a letter to May published on his Twitter account.
Writing on Twitter, South Wales East Mohammad Asghar said Mr Cameron would be “sadly missed” and it was “a true pleasure” to serve as a Conservative politician under his leadership. “I want to thank everyone who has given so much support to me personally over these years”, he said. After Cameron’s final private audience with the Queen, the monarch said her farewell, again in private, to Cameron’s family. In David Cameron, I follow in the footsteps of a great, modern Prime Minister.
European Union leaders are pressing for a swift divorce following the vote to leave the bloc on June 23, which sent shockwaves around the world and plunged Britain into uncertainty.
Euroskeptic former ministers David Davis and Liam Fox were appointed respectively as Brexit negotiator and global trade minister, two new posts reflecting changed priorities after the referendum.
She is also expected to meet Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in the coming days, with Sturgeon telling a press conference Wednesday that Brexit “does not apply to Scotland, as Scotland voted differently in the referendum”.
Johnson led the Brexit camp to victory, antagonising many European Union leaders in the process, but dismayed supporters by backing out of the race to succeed Cameron at the last minute. “Florence – you once climbed into one, before a foreign trip, and said “take me with you”, he said.
She also stood firm on her promise that Brexit means Brexit.
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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!”
