Speaking the same day Theresa May announced Boris Johnson as the UK’s new foreign secretary, Schulz delivered some harsh words for the new prime minister and her government, saying they must break the country’s “dangerous vicious circle” before it also impacts the EU.
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Mrs May, in her inaugural speech as Prime Minister standing outside #10 Downing Street, vowed to build a better Britain and unite the UK once again to preserve the “precious bond” between Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
“Clearly now we have a massive opportunity in this country to make a great success of our relationship with Europe and with the world and I’m very excited to be asked to play a part in that”, he told the BBC.
She is also Britain’s second female head of government after Margaret Thatcher.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron resigned, and was replaced at 10 Downing Street by Theresa May.
Cameron stepped down after Britons rejected his entreaties to stay in the European Union, sending shock waves across the 28-nation bloc.
In his final appearance in Parliament as British Prime Minister, David Cameron opened with the quip that “apart from one meeting in the afternoon with the Queen, my diary is remarkably light”.
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.
May rounded off her first handful of Cabinet appointments with the choice of Fox, a former defense secretary who ran against her to be Conservative Party leader. Observers are keen to see if she appoints former London Mayor Boris Johnson and Justice Secretary Michael Gove, onetime Conservative leadership contenders who jointly headed the “leave” campaign but then turned on one another.
“Following the referendum, we face a time of great national change”, May said, according to the AP.
May ditched finance minister George Osborne, Cameron’s closest ally, and appointed former foreign secretary Philip Hammond to the job instead, charging him with the task of calming fears over the potential damage of leaving Britain’s biggest market.
There was a small protest near Downing Street on Wednesday, with its participants calling for a general election to be held in the country instead of the appointment of a new Tory PM, Reuters reported.
Referring to the recent referendum on European Union membership May said: “We are living through uncertain moments in our country’s history”.
According to a report in the Guardian, May paid the traditional visit to the Queen to be invited to form a government and went to the palace to “kiss hands” with her, as the ceremony is known.
Prime Minister Theresa May has named Liam Fox Britain’s new minister for worldwide trade.
Johnson had hoped to become British prime minister but saw his dream fade amid Conservative Party plotting after last month’s vote.
Shortly before his exit, Mr. Cameron said his six years as prime minister had been the “greatest honor” of his life.
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The Prime Minister explained that Britain would need some time to prepare for the negotiations on how Brexit would be achieved.
