“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve our country as prime minister over these last six years, and to serve as leader of my party for nearly 11 years”, he said outside 10 Downing St., accompanied by his wife Samantha and his children – 12-year-old Nancy, 10-year-old Elwen and 5-year-old Florence.
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David Cameron said being prime minister was “the greatest honour of my life” as he left Downing Street for the last time yesterday.
Her most contentious appointment is Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, accused by his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault on Thursday of lying to Britons in the run-up to last month’s shock referendum vote to leave the 28-nation EU.
In phone conversations with the leaders of Germany, France and Ireland, who called to wish her well as Britain’s second-ever woman prime minister, May underlined her commitment to a British exit, or Brexit.
“Based on the public comments we’ve seen from the incoming prime minister, she intends to pursue a course that’s consistent with the prescription that President Obama has offered”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
However, new Chancellor Philip Hammond suggested just days ago as Foreign Secretary that it could take six years before Britain’s departure from the European Union was fully agreed.
Gone were Cameron allies including ex-Treasury chief George Osborne, Cameron’s friend and neighbour and like him the product of an elite private school.
David Davis MP, Britain’s new Minister for Exiting the European Union, has said that Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty must be invoked by the end of the year, triggering Britain’s departure from the Union.
Another hardline critic of the EU, Liam Fox, becomes minister for worldwide trade, reflecting the need to forge new alliances if Britain leaves the EU single market.
Hammond will have to manage an economy that risks sliding into recession after last month’s vote to leave the European Union, and set new budget goals after his predecessor George Osborne abandoned his aim to run a budget surplus by 2020. She also promised to preside over an economy that benefits everyone. The former mayor of London is internationally famous – but for rumpled eccentricity and distinctly undiplomatic gaffes, rather than statesmanlike behavior.
According to the Guardian, Smith, who announced his candidacy to succeed Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday, says many Britons who backed leaving the European Union believe they were misled and should be given a second chance to vote.
With his unkempt blonde hair, bumbling humor and penchant for gaffes, he is a colorful but contentious choice for conducting sensitive diplomacy with world leaders.
The State Department said Kerry told Johnson that the USA would stay engaged with Britain as it moves ahead in the process of leaving the 28-nation bloc, and the two men agreed to meet next week in Brussels. He served for three years in David Cameron’s shadow cabinet when he was leader of the opposition as shadow home secretary, but resigned in 2008, both from his shadow cabinet job and from his job as an MP, forcing a by-election that he used to highlight what he saw as continuous erosion of individual freedoms under Tony Blair’s Labour government. An official photograph showed her curtseying to the smiling monarch.
She is also Britain’s second female head of government after Baroness Margaret Thatcher.
“The government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours”.
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 Theresa May, in her first speech as prime minister.
Outside Downing Street, a group of demonstrators chanted: ‘What do we want?
“She is able to see and reflect on things clearly and she will bring the capacity in terms of negotiating and team building”, says Ruth.
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May is expected to make more appointments Thursday after a raft of senior positions were announced in the hours after she formally accepted the task of forming a new government following a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II.
