Controversially, she installed former London Mayor Boris Johnson as foreign secretary.
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She fired heavyweight Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove who had sought Tory leadership, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
Outspoken “Leave” supporter Johnson was named foreign secretary.
May won the leadership battle and quickly sacked Gove, who is now seen as treacherous by many Conservatives.
In another instance, the new Foreign Secretary was forced to apologise back in 2008 after he was presented with his comments, written five years earlier, about black people.
With his unkempt blonde hair, bumbling humor and penchant for Latin quotations, the man known to Britons simply as “Boris” will be the government’s most colorful figure, but a contentious choice for conducting sensitive diplomacy with world leaders. He is internationally famous – but for rumpled eccentricity, Latin aphorisms and distinctly undiplomatic gaffes.
In April, he suggested that United States president Barack Obama opposed Brexit because he was “half-Kenyan” with an “ancestral dislike of the British Empire”. Asked late on Wednesday whom he would apologise to first, Johnson said “the United States of America will be at the front of the queue”.
“It was clear that Theresa was forming a different kind of cabinet, and I was not to be part of it”, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, denying her appointments represented a purge of David Cameron’s allies.
He even poked fun at himself, reminding legislators of a barb he directed at then-Prime Minister Tony Blair more than a decade ago: “He was the future once”.
Britain should probably formally quit the European Union around December 2018, new Brexit Secretary David Davis has signalled.
“Clearly British humour has no borders”, the leader of the liberal group in the European Union parliament, Guy Verhofstadt said on Twitter after the new British cabinet was announced.
For the past six years, May has served as home secretary, in charge of immigration and law and order, CBS News reported.
One of the Government’s first priorities will be to negotiate good access to the single market without having to grant the complete free movement of people – and all the costs which that imposes on public services and our welfare system.
Hammond said there would be a normal autumn statement in the fall, and a regular budget next spring. And I know because we’re Great Britain that we will rise to the challenge.
Steinmeier said that “Britain remains an important partner” with which Germany must work at the U.N., NATO, in the Group of Seven and in efforts to end Syria’s civil war.
For Evans it would also ease years of irritation by removing the “CE” marking demanded by the European Union for measuring instruments used in trade on his pint glass and return the crown stamp.
Later in the day Thursday, Hammond is slated to meet with Bank of England governor Mark Carney to discuss the British economy moving forward.
The bank could also restart the so-called quantitative easing program under which it effectively pumps money into the economy via the purchase of government bonds from financial institutions.
Carney has already indicated that some sort of stimulus will be offered during the summer months as his pre-vote warnings about the impact on the economy had begun to crystallize.
Putting crucial global portfolios firmly in the hands of Brexit supporters was perhaps an astute move for May, who had argued, tepidly, for Britain to remain in the EU.
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European Parliament President Martin Schulz said the EU would “work constructively” with the new British government.
