Britain’s new govt signals PM May is serious about Brexit

“Dear world… sorry”, read the headline of the UK’s Daily Mirror in the wake of Johnson’s appointment, while U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner seemed to smile with disbelief when he was given the news at a press conference (before hurriedly restoring his expression to a more diplomatic neutrality).

There is also speculation that May, Britain’s second female prime minister – after Margaret Thatcher – will boost the number of women in top posts.

Both agreed that “friendly ties between the two countries should continue, including in the upcoming negotiations on Britain’s departure from the European Union”, he added. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday: “We must let Her Majesty’s new government have a bit of time to make the necessary decisions”.

Philip Hammond, the former Foreign Secretary, has been made the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Amber Rudd is Home Secretary, and Eurosceptic David Davis has been made the new Brexit secretary.

A day after replacing David Cameron, May told the head of the European Commission that Britain needed time to determine its negotiating strategy, brushing off pressure from European leaders to swiftly launch the two-year official exit process.

Speaking after his appointment, Mr Johnson told BBC News: “Obviously very, very humbled, very, very proud to be offered this chance”.

“I can not believe that Boris Johnson is now going to be the person to represent Britain overseas”, he said.

May is Queen Elizabeth’s 13th prime minister in a line that started with Winston Churchill.

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.

Brexiteers David Davis and Liam Fox were handed brand new Cabinet positions as Brexit Secretary and International Trade Secretary respectively, as Mrs May sought to pull together a team to deliver on the historic vote to leave the EU.

Americans must congratulate the British Conservative Party in its quick choice of Theresa May as prime minister in the wake of the vote June 23 to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union.

“I think now they will want to see that this big figure who’s full of showmanship can adapt very rapidly to the much more disciplined style needed of a Foreign Secretary”.

She has also fired Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, who backed Gove’s short-lived leadership campaign. She rewarded Johnson with the plum job of foreign secretary. First, May will sit with Angela Merkel to establish how is it possible to restrict immigration from other E.U. countries while not limiting access to British business to the European common market.

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”. When we pass new laws we’ll listen not to the mighty, but to you.

Cameron stepped down after Britons rejected his entreaties and voted to leave the EU in a referendum last month, severely undermining European efforts to forge greater unity and creating economic uncertainty across the 28-nation bloc.