Johnson, Leadsom, Davis and Fox all campaigned for Britain’s exit from the European Union unlike May.
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Steinmeier told ZDF television Thursday evening: “Boris Johnson is a shrewd politician, experienced enough – he knows that he faces different tasks now”.
David Cameron, 49, resigned after voters rejected his advice and made a decision to leave the European Union.
Theresa May became Britain’s new prime minister on Wednesday, accepting an invitation to govern from Queen Elizabeth II after the resignation of David Cameron.
The White House says he told May on Thursday that the US was committed to deepening the USA relationship with the U.K. Obama told her he looks forward to working with her during his final six months in office.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama isn’t seeking an apology from Johnson.
That was simply one of many undiplomatic comments over Johnson’s career that made his consultation as foreign secretary the biggest surprise of the cabinet shakeup. Johnson led the campaign to drop out of the EU.
Ayrault also predicted that Johnson has an uphill struggle ahead of him remarking that “now it’s him with his back against the wall to defend his country and to clarify his relationship with Europe”.
In a Thursday phone call from Paris, Kerry and Johnson “agreed that the USA -U.K. special relationship is as essential as ever” and pledged to work together as North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies in facing challenges.
Hammond said the decision to vote for Brexit would mean Britain would leave the EU’s tariff-free single market, and it would then have to negotiate a new deal as a trading partner rather than a member.
Among other appointments, Mrs May promoted Amber Rudd, former Energy Secretary, to Home Secretary. Johnson, who throughout the project compared the bloc’s goals to those of Hitler and Napoleon, informed reporters that regardless of Brexit, Britain could play an even higher function in Europe.
He said it’s “critical that negotiations take place in a pragmatic and transparent and smooth manner, where both sides demonstrate flexibility in order to produce results that are the right outcome, that have mutually acceptable and. amicable outcomes”.
“I am also proud that she is the second Conservative woman Prime Minister”.
Gove was replaced as Justice Secretary by Liz Truss while Education Secretary Nicky Morgan was also fired and replaced by the former worldwide development secretary Justine Greening. She is Britain’s first female lord chancellor. “Plainly British humor has no borders”, tweeted former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
“David Cameron has led a one-nation government and it is in that spirit that I also plan to lead”, May said outside 10 Downing St.
The most surprising of May’s appointments.
Davis, a veteran lawmaker who has twice run for the Conservative leadership, is one of the staunchest euroskeptics in British politics.
The incoming Prime Minister arrived at Buckingham Palace just minutes after David Cameron formally resigned this afternoon. “Britain is open for business”.
“Negotiating strategy has to be properly designed and there is some serious consultation to be done first”, Mr Davis said, noting around the end of 2018 was the time for “probable formal departure” from the EU.
But he said that “it’s also important to point out that the quicker we succeed in creating clarity, the better it is to limit possible risks”.
On her first full day in office, May dismantled Cameron’s affluent metropolitan clique, dubbed the “Notting Hill set” after the former prime minister’s trendy West London neighborhood.
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.
She has been described as “steely”, “ruthless” and “ice queen”, with Conservative Ken Clarke even calling her “a bloody hard woman”. Mr Gove argued that Mr Johnson was not up to the job.
She axed a handful of prominent ministers including Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a leading Brexit campaigner who had staged his own bid for prime minister.
May is expected to name a raft of new ministers on Thursday.
The foreign policy spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in Parliament said Thursday that many current British suggestions for future relations with the European Union were “unworkable”.
However, May has said Britain will need time to prepare for the negotiations.
In a speech delivered during the Brexit campaign, Mr Davis said he believed there would “almost certainly” be a deal that maintains a free market between the European Union and the UK.
Mrs May is the 13th Prime Minister to serve this queen – the first was Winston Churchill.
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Hammond acknowledged that the Brexit vote has had “a chilling effect” on investment, saying “the No. 1 challenge is to stabilize the economy, send signals of confidence about the future”.
