Cameron announced his resignation on June 24, just hours after the Britons voted by a 52-48 majority to leave the European Union.
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In his farewell statement outside Downing Street, Mr Cameron said Mrs May would provide “strong and stable leadership” and wished her well in her negotiations on Britain’s exit from the EU.
The biggest surprise is the appointment of Boris Johnson, the Tory members’ darling, as the foreign secretary – one of the greatest offices of state, with a hugely different role as the United Kingdom contemplates life outside the EU.
But the European Union officials also emphasised that Britain and Brussels will have to move soon to address the consequences of the country’s vote to leave the bloc.
In another key appointment, May named former foreign minister Philip Hammond as her new finance minister, with the job of calming fears over the economic fall-out of leaving Britain’s biggest market.
Conservative lawmaker David Davis will take the newly formed job of minister in charge of negotiations with the European Union that will set up the conditions for leaving.
Now that she is prime minister, May will learn the details of Britain’s nuclear deterrent and has started to receive congratulatory phone calls from fellow world leaders.
Earlier Wednesday, Cameron made his final appearance before Parliament where he received a standing ovation from conservative MPs.
In her first public speech as UK Prime Minister, Theresa May outlined the priorities facing the new government under her leadership which include unifying a country that has been divided by the EU Referendum debate.
He will be then driven up to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II after which May will have her own audience at the palace when she will accept the monarch’s offer to form a new government.
“The welfare of the country is not the focal point of political decision-making but inner-party calculations”, Schulz said. We’ll make Britain a country that doesn’t work for privileged few but everyone of us.
“It means we believe in the union: the precious, precious bond between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland”.
“On Wednesday I will attend the House of Commons for Prime Minister’s questions”, Cameron told reporters Monday outside 10 Downing Street.
Ms May is well known to Irish ministers who have had many dealings with her in her years as British Home Secretary.
David Davis has been put in charge of exit negotiations as new Brexit minister, while Liam Fox has responsibility for negotiating new trade agreements outside the bloc.
“Obviously, with these changes, we now don’t need to have a prolonged period of transition”.
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Cameron said Wednesday it was the “greatest honor” of his life to serve as prime minister. “As I once said, I was the future, once”, he said.
