Boris Johnson becomes UK’s new Prime Minister
Boris Johnson becomes UK’s new prime minister and enters No 10, saying the “bucks stops here”, as Theresa May bids farewell.
Sajid Javid is the Chancellor, Priti Patel, Home Secretary,Stephen Barclay, Brexit Secretary, Michael Gove becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Ben Wallace, Defence Secretary, Liz Truss becomes International Trade Secretary, Matt Hancock becomes Health and Social Care Secretary, Theresa Villiers becomes Environment Secretary, Gavin Williamson becomes Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan becomes Culture Secretary, Andrea Leadsom, Business Secretary, Robert Jenrick, Housing and Communities Seceretary, Amber Rudd, Work and Pensions, Women Equalities, Robert Buckland, Justice Secretary, Alok Sharma International Development Secretary, Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary. Geoffrey Cox remains Attorney General.
The value of the Pound was almost unchanged by news that Prime Minister Theresa May will be succeeded by Boris Johnson tomorrow.
Boris created a new hardcore team of Brexiters determined to take Britain out of the EU on October 31 and ready for an early election.
Boris brutally sacked 15 senior ministers from Theresa May’s cabinet and he declared war on the “doubters and domstersm the glomsters.” He ais Britain would leave the EU in 99 days and carried out a cabinet clear out that made Harold Macmillan’s 1962 “ night of the long knives” seems modest.
Boris Johnson promised a “new golden age” for Britain outside the European Union. In his first Commons statement, the new Prime minister surprised MPs with a highly optimistic vision of Britain overtaking Germany to become the “most prosperous economy in Europe” within 30 years.
Repeating US President Donald Trump. Mr Johnson said his mission was to make Britain “the greatest place on earth”, “I’m conscious that some may accuse me of hyperbole.”
He also stoked expectations of an early general elections.