During the Brexit referendum, Johnson was one of the leading voices of the successful campaign for Britain to leave the European Union.
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The Ugandan government’s spokesperson responded to an article suggesting Uganda would be better off as a colony, saying: “We would be more concerned if the U.S. or Russian Federation appointed someone like Boris Johnson”.
Monday’s meeting, which is to cover a range of concerns from violence in South Sudan to Europe’s relationship with China, also will be attended in part by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who will discuss with foreign ministers policies on Ukraine and the Middle East.
Of all the European powers, it is Germany that Britain most wants to bring onside in the negotiations over its withdrawal.
Boris Johnson’s first speech as British Foreign Secretary has been meet with boos at a Bastille Day Celebration in the French Embassy in London this morning.
Speaking to BBC news after his appointment on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he was “obviously very, very humbled, very, very proud to be offered this chance”.
He later attended a Bastille Day party at the French ambassador’s residence in London, to “reassure everybody about Brexit”.
“The fact that Theresa May is. appointing, of all people, this undiplomatic, unpredictable and disloyal hotshot as foreign minister seems absurd at first glance”, it said.
On social media, French writers let rip too, with one tweeting “a clown as the new foreign minister – comedy or Shakespearean tragedy?” while another proposed that Johnson “recruit Mr Bean as an adviser”.
Stephen Crabb, the work and pensions secretary and one of the contenders for May’s job, said he had resigned from the government “in the best interests of my family”.
Others took a more conciliatory view with the belief that Johnson as foreign secretary would be more temperate than his previous incarnations as Johnson the journalist, Johnson the legislator or Johnson the London mayor.
Theresa May wanted Britain to stay in the European Union, but the government she unveiled Thursday leaves little doubt that Britain’s new prime minister intends to fulfill voters’ instructions and take it out of the 28-nation bloc. He was a key campaigner for Britain to leave the EU. But she decided to make him Foreign Secretary largely to ensure that he will not be able to foment another rebellion in the Conservative Party.
May is expected to name a raft of new ministers on Thursday.
On Thursday, May unveiled the rest of her Cabinet with Justice Secretary Michael Gove, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and Culture Secretary John Whittingdale all losing their posts.
“The Prime Minister explained that we would need some time to prepare for these negotiations and spoke of her hope that these could be conducted in a constructive and positive spirit”, a Downing Street spokesperson said today.
Juergen Hardt said that “free access to the common market means, among other things, accepting other fundamental freedoms such as the freedom of movement”.
Still, Hardt suggests: “Britain remaining in the European Union should also be an option for the new government – it would be better for Great Britain and the rest of the European Union”.
New British Treasury chief Hammond tried to sound a reassuring note Thursday, pledging that he would not introduce an emergency national budget – even though there are question marks hanging over the economy following the country’s decision to leave the EU.
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“Sir Christopher Meyer, a former United Kingdom ambassador to the USA, told Sky News he thought the appointment was “‘bold, imaginative, risky”, but that it could be a “shot of adrenalin” through the British diplomatic system which after Brexit would need to “raise its game around the world”.
