“The Channel will not get any wider once we leave the European Union, and that is the relationship we should seek”. “I look forward to working closely with you on this and to learn about your intentions in this regard”.
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“Economic risks stemming from the foreign-trade environment have increased since the British people’s Brexit vote”, the ministry said in its July monthly report.
A political expert says the UK’s incoming Prime Minister is strong, and she’ll have to be to pull together the remaining Conservative party.
“I stress the importance for the European Union of the freedom of the press, the freedom of expression, association and assembly, including for minorities”, he said.
Then, after a rousing speech defending his government’s legacy, he and his family left his home at 10 Downing Street for the last time and made the short drive to Buckingham Palace.
Mrs May held a meeting with the Queen, where she was appointed the Monarch’s 13th Prime Minister.
Cameron, who quit hours after the vote, will depart sometime Wednesday with his wife, Samantha.
David Cameron said being Prime Minister has been the “greatest honour of my life” in his final words outside Downing Street. “And then after that I expect to go to the Palace and offer my resignation, so we will have a new prime minister in that building behind me by Wednesday evening”.
She had said that she was honoured and humbled to be taking over and pledged to make a success of the UK’s European Union exit.
“Doo-doo, doo-doo”, David hummed, before finishing with a businesslike “right” as the famous black door swung shut behind him.
May, 59, is only the second woman ever to become prime minister in the United Kingdom. Whatever her strategy, May’s colleagues agree she’ll be a steely negotiator.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said the German leader hasn’t personally met May yet but “will certainly have contact with her soon”.
After six years in office, Cameron announced he would resign the day after the vote. And that in the end, the public service, the national interest, that is what it is all about.
Not to mention a Conservative Party whose infighting over Europe prompted Cameron to call a referendum in the first place – much to his spectacular downfall.
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!” “As I once said, I was the future once”, he said, before walking out to a standing ovation of Tory MPs.
When he took office in 2010, the 43-year-old Cameron was Britain’s youngest prime minister in nearly 200 years.
He joked that his afternoon schedule “will be light” after he steps down following a brief visit with Queen Elizabeth II. The party started with five candidates and, through party voting and resignations, that group has narrowed to Home Secretary Theresa May.
Mr Cameron arrived at the school, which opened in 2012 after being set up by teachers under the Government’s education reforms, on Tuesday to a rousing reception of cheering and clapping students.
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She is likely to name her Cabinet in the coming days.
