Cameron also made a reference to his successor, United Kingdom home secretary Theresa May, in his final speech, saying he wished her well and was proud that for the “second time in British history” the Prime Minister will be a woman and “once again a Conservative” in reference to Margaret Thatcher as the first female PM of Britain.
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Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said he could not believe Johnson will now represent Britain overseas.
Asked for a response to Mr Ayrault’s remarks, and his own record of undiplomatic comments, Mr Johnson said it was “inevitable that there would be a certain amount of plaster coming off the ceilings in the Chancelleries of Europe” after Britain’s Brexit vote, and they were “making their views known in a free and frank way”. He has said that Article 50 of the European Union constitution – the formal trigger for two years of negotiations – should be invoked by the start of 2017.
The new Chancellor said the vote to quit the European Union has had a chilling effect on the British economy but there will be “no emergency budget”.
May’s first calls after taking over late Wednesday were to Europe’s top two powerbrokers, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.
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”.
“We will work constructively with the newly elected British government in these hard times, as we have in the past”, Schulz said Thursday in a statement.
The Bank of England kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday, wrong-footing many investors who had expected the first cut in more than seven years. She has the tough task of calming the country and global financial markets after the upheaval that has followed Brexit.
“Britain is open for business”, he said.
“Economic uncertainty lingers”, it said.
Mrs May began forming her new cabinet shortly after her arrival into 10 Downing Street.
We have seen the introduction of the new National Living Wage – giving people over 25 on low wages a pay rise – and we have lifted four million people, and rising, out of income tax altogether. “And we will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few but for everyone of us”.
The three other Cabinet members announced so far are Michael Fallon, who will remain as defense secretary; Amber Rudd as the new home secretary, and Liam Fox as the secretary of worldwide trade. The veteran Eurosceptic politician and leading Brexit campaigner stood against David Cameron for the leadership of the Conservatives back in 2005.
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The under-pressure leftist urged May to “abandon the destructive austerity policies which have damaged our economy and undermined living standards”.
