In her first address to the nation, May instantly distanced herself from former Prime Minister David Cameron’s government by declaring she would not “entrench the advantages of the fortunate few”, The Telegraph said.
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As David Cameron conducted his final Prime Minister Question’s session at the House of Commons on Wednesday, he shared joked and bantered with MPs and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and later on was given a standing ovation by the MPs as well during his farewell speech.
“Britain is open for business”, he said.
He added he looked forward to learning about May’s “intentions in this regard”.
Though the exact shape of Brexit has not been decided, the new Chancellor Philip Hammond this morning told LBC radio: “We will come out of the single market as a result of our decision to leave the European Union”. Theresa May, in her inaugural remarks as Britain’s second female PM in history, vowed to lead a “one nation” government that works for everyone.
The United States congratulated May and said it was confident in her ability to steer Britain through the Brexit negotiations. She campaigned to remain in the European Union but now ironically, top on the things-to-do list is Brexit.
New finance minister Philip Hammond signalled he would take a less aggressive approach to cutting the budget deficit than his predecessor George Osborne, who was dumped on Wednesday.
Johnson was the figurehead of the successful Leave campaign, but since the referendum had suffered widespread criticism and ridicule for failing to present a clear Brexit plan and swiftly dropping out of the leadership race.
Johnson said he was “very humbled, very proud to be offered this chance”.
The surprise choice drew a withering response from French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who described the former London mayor as a liar.
In April, he suggested that US President Barack Obama had an “ancestral dislike” of Britain because he is part-Kenyan. Just this spring, he won a poetry contest with a limerick about the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sex with a goat.
Well she certainly has done that, wasting no time in announcing the most senior jobs in her cabinet, the first appointment only an hour or so after she walked in.
Another important portfolio will go to a Brexiteer.
Mrs May also appointed Liam Fox to the new position of secretary of state for global trade, while Michael Fallon was retained as defence secretary.
The foreign policy spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in Parliament said Thursday that many current British suggestions for future relations with the European Union were “unworkable”.
But she proved her mettle when she took the description and ran with it, noting: “Politics could do with some bloody hard women, actually”.
“The negotiating strategy has to be properly designed, and there is some serious consultation to be done first”, he said.
She highlighted the “precious bond” between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and between “every one of us”.
“When we take the big calls, we’ll think not of the powerful, but you”.
Davis outlined his views earlier this week in an article for the ConservativeHome website that was reissued on Thursday.
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“Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a success of it”, said Mrs May this week. “There may be some complexities about rules of origin and narrowly-based regulatory compliance for exports into the European Union, but that is all manageable”, he said in an opinion piece for the news blog ConservativeHome on Monday.
