Leaving EU ‘does not mean leaving Europe’: UK’s Boris Johnson

One of the leading figures in the Brexit campaign, Johnson was once seen as a possible prime minister himself, but failed to win the support of party colleagues.

Former energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd has been promoted in May’s new Cabinet as Home Secretary, the portfolio previously held by May herself, with Eurosceptic David Davis being made in charge of a new department for Exiting the European Union and being dubbed “Brexit minister”.

On Thursday, German diplomacy chief Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that Johnson was “irresponsible” and that his behaviour after the Brexit vote was “outrageous”.

Hammond was one of Prime Minister Theresa May’s first appointments, and one of his immediate tasks was to take to the airwaves in hopes of offering calming tones of reassurance to the markets and the general public about the economy.

On other hand, the former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott tweeted: “Good to see @BorisJohnson as the new United Kingdom foreign secretary”.

But Ms May’s creation of a trade department, led by right-wing Brexit supporter Liam Fox, who is now the country’s first Secretary of State for International Trade, means Mr Johnson will not be involved in discussions of a commercial nature.

The shuffle signals that May values social mobility and self-made successes. Now the remarkably undiplomatic Boris Johnson, his political career miraculously revived, has become Britain’s top diplomat. The winning “Leave” campaign dismissed what it called “Project Fear”, saying Britain would prosper if it regained independence from Brussels. But his appointment as foreign secretary caused some consternation around the world.

Johnson, 52, has made a long string of racist and insensitive comments dating back to his early career in journalism.

These include the recent suggestion Barack Obama might hold a grudge against Britain because of his “part-Kenyan” heritage. “And I think we now have the opportunity to achieve that”, Johnson said.

In France, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault Thursday branded his British counterpart a liar.

There is widespread animosity in Europe toward Johnson, who recently compared the EU’s aims to those of Adolf Hitler.

“There is a massive difference between leaving the European Union and our relations with Europe, which if anything I think are going to be intensified and built up at an intergovernmental level”.

When Johnson returned to his London home after the appointment, a neighbor had placed a sign next to his house saying: “SORRY WORLD”. May has given him the chance to live up to his potential – or to fail spectacularly. “There may be some mishaps”. He says Obama is confident the USA will keep working to strengthen relations “irrespective of specific personalities”.

Both had supported dealing with Russian Federation with a firm hand, within the framework of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, she said.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May to Germany, she said during a visit to Kyrgyzstan yesterday.

Three weeks after the referendum, May’s new government faces the formidably complex task of extricating Britain from the European Union – itself reeling from the shock of Brexit – while trying to protect the economy from feared disruption to confidence, trade and investment. But he accused May of putting a desire to unite her deeply divided Conservative party ahead of concerns about Britain’s future.