The appointment of Britain’s second female prime minister has inevitably drawn comparisons with Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher.
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Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May has maintained that she intends to lead the country out of the European Union, though she also asked EU leaders for time to prepare that path.
European Parliament chief Martin Schulz today took aim at British Prime Minister Theresa May’s new cabinet, saying it continued a “dangerously vicious cycle” that will hurt Britain and Europe.
May replaced David Cameron, who stood down Wednesday, July 13, following the referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union, sparking political turmoil, and volatility on the financial markets.
Cameron announced his resignation last month, following the UK’s shock referendum result to leave the EU.
Just over an hour after entering her new office, she started naming ministers.
Gesturing across the room and up to his wife, Samantha, watching from the gallery, he said: “I will miss the roar of the crowd, I will miss the barbs from the opposition, but I will be willing you on”.
The quip was a reference to a comment by Obama during Britain’s European Union referendum campaign that the country would be at the back of the queue for trade deals if it voted to leave the bloc.
In his final Prime Minister’s Questions at Parliament, outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron opened Wednesday with the quip that “apart from one meeting in the afternoon with the Queen, my diary is remarkably light”.
Merkel was said to have wished her British counterpart good luck.
May, however, responded that she needed time before triggering Article 50 to establish a two-year negotiation period before leaving the EU.
George Osborne has resigned and former Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has been unveiled as the new Chancellor.
The veteran Eurosceptic MP was among the first appointments in May’s cabinet unveiled right after she became the country’s Prime Minister on Wednesday.
During her term as home secretary she took a firm stance against illegal immigration to Britain and against the activities of radical Islamic movements.
“I hope that your vast political experience will be sought after both in the United Kingdom and in the global community”, Putin’s message to Cameron said.
But Mr. Cameron will mainly be remembered as the prime minister who gambled – and lost – by holding a referendum in which he called on Britons to continue more than four decades of European integration.
Secretary of State John Kerry called Johnson to congratulate him and “stressed USA support for a sensible and measured approach to the Brexit process”, the State Department said.
Top Brexit campaigner and former London mayor Boris Johnson has made a sensational comeback after two weeks in the political wilderness to become Britain’s top diplomat. “After all, as I once said, I was the future once”.
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Trying to reclaim his legacy from his Brexit miscalculation, Cameron said his government had cut the deficit, overseen economic growth and legalized same-sex marriage. And he offered the closest thing he has ever given to a mission statement: I believe that politics is about public service in the national interest..
