“The more time you have to let the bad news sink in, the better chance you have to backpedal on this at least a bit”, said Jan Techau, the head of Carnegie Europe, the Brussels outpost of the Washington-based think tank.
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May’s only rival Andrea Leadsom, a junior energy minister, has emphasised her credentials as a top Brexit campaigner and her supporters say only she can be trusted to enact Britain’s withdrawal.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had reassured the European Union of Italy’s commitment post Brexit.
She has ruled out a second referendum, as well as a general election before 2020.
So who is Theresa May?
She is becoming prime minister earlier than anticipated because her opponent withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership contest, and some leaders of the campaign to leave the European Union want the legal process to begin right away. The couple married in 1990.
The minister from the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) previously said he did not see the result on the UK’s membership of the European Union to be “absolutely fixed”.
France’s far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen’s Front National has reportedly remained fairly stable with its leader expected to get through the final round of the presidential race in 2017.
British politics is filled with uncertainties these days, but this we know: There is just one person standing in the contest for 10 Downing Street.
Sky News recorded Clarke’s remarks, though he apparently was not aware the camera was rolling as he spoke with Malcolm Rifkind, a former foreign secretary. She is a hawk on immigration.
“But I want to be clear – we will deal with them from a position of strength”.
The EU has criticised China for adopting what it sees as unfair policies to protect its companies while denying market access and equal treatment to European companies.
Yet May has pledged to respect last month’s referendum.
“Brexit means Brexit, and we’re going to make a success of it”, she said recently.
“Above all though, we must recognise we are in a new reality now, we must accept it and we must make it work”. Cameron announced after the vote that he would step down in October, saying a new leader would be needed to usher the country through the transition. But as other potential candidates in the Conservative Party fell away, the process accelerated and it appeared May would replace him on Wednesday. But those around her obsess about avoiding the mistakes of Gordon Brown, another introverted master of detail who inherited the premiership rather than winning it at the polls.
The fallout from the referendum has included widespread global criticism, jittery financial markets and a falling British pound.
“That’s the way British business is responding to the referendum result”. However, their voters also highly value the right to emigrate here.
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May has indicated that she could wait until next year before triggering Article 50, a move bound to anger European Union leaders who have urged the United Kingdom to stop wasting time and prolonging uncertainty. “I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since”.
