Reshuffle: Who Is in Theresa May’s New British Government?

United Kingdom finance chief George Osborne resigned from the new government, replaced by ex-Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Downing Street said in a statement on Wednesday.

The flamboyant former Mayor of London was a leading figure in the victorious “Leave” campaign in Britain’s European Union membership referendum last month but has never been a byword for diplomacy. An opponent of Brexit, Hammond said during the referendum campaign that the process of leaving the European Union might take longer than the second world war, and on Tuesday he did not back track from this assessment.

It is exactly those qualities which have made him the “reassuringly boring” choice for successive promotions to Transport Secretary, Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary and now Chancellor.

There have been six appointments tonight, with the most surprising being Boris Johnson landing as Foreign Secretary after his withdrawal from the leadership contest.

May has always been committed to promoting women within the party, and Rudd, a key supporter of May’s who impressed journalists while arguing the case for “Remain” during European Union referendum TV debates, was hotly tipped for promotion from energy secretary.

Theresa May replaced David Cameron as Britain’s prime minister on Wednesday.

The flurry of appointments came within hours of Mrs May taking office.

Tonight Mrs May pledged to battle “social injustice” and create a “country that works for everyone” after being officially been installed into 10 Downing Street.

He said: “As David Cameron prepares to visit HM the Queen and tender his resignation I want to add my voice to those praising his remarkable service as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party”.

Liam Fox has been handed a new trade portfolio.

Johnson from the IFS said the finance ministry was likely to play a key role in Britain’s attempts to retain access to the EU’s single market in the years of negotiations over its new relationship with the bloc that probably lie ahead.

Anti-EU Tory backbench MP John Baron demanded prominent Remain-backing Cabinet ministers step down, insisting “Generation Gloom must retire to the sidelines so that we best capitalise on the many opportunities that will result from us leaving the EU”.

She went on: ‘Not everybody knows this, but the full title of my party is the Conservative and Unionist Party.

Hammond had been the foreign minister in the outgoing government of David Cameron since 2014.

A further three also have the right to attend Cabinet as senior ministers who don’t have their own departments.