BREXIT: Many British Who Voted In Favour Do Not Know What It Implies, Here Is What It Actually Means

Metro UK - More than 17 million voted to leave the EU, but if you asked any of them to explain exactly what Brexit will look like they might struggle.

But we might have a clearer indication of where we will lie – on the world stage at least – once Theresa May heads to China for the G20.

The assembly of the world’s most powerful leaders is the first major summit post-Brexit and will afford the prime minister an opportunity to hold one-on-one meetings with many of them.

The complication of untangling the UK from the EU means we won’t get a clear indication of what our new relationship with the European bloc might look like for some time yet.

But we might at least get some idea of how the PM sees our new role as an independent nation (that is if Brexit definitely does happen)

A number 10 spokesman told Sky: ‘It is a real opportunity for the PM to send a clear message to the world’s largest economies that Britain continues to play a bold, confident and outward looking role, as the UK leaves the EU.’

They added that the PM wants to show the UK remains ‘open for business’ and reiterate her desire for a ‘smooth and orderly departure from the EU and stronger trading relations in the future.’

The Conservative leader will meet with Barack Obama, President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, amongst others.

With the US’ trade deal with the EU apparently stalled, it might represent an opportunity for the UK to push the case for a future transatlantic agreement of its own.

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The Profile of the New British Prime Minister, THERESA MAY

THERESA MAY

Political Profile

Date of birth: 1 October 1956

Job: Home secretary

One of the longest-serving home secretaries in British history, Mrs May, who turns 60 later this year, has long been regarded as a potential future leader of the party.

An early advocate of Conservative “modernisation” with a famously exotic taste in shoes, she is seen as one of Westminster’s toughest and shrewdest operators.

Her political stock rose when, in 2013, she succeeded where many other home secretaries before her had failed and successfully deported radical cleric Abu Qatada. But she has faced constant criticism over the government’s failure to meet its promise to get net migration down to below 100,000 a year.

First elected to Parliament in 1997 as the MP for Maidenhead, Mrs May joined the shadow cabinet in 1999 as shadow education secretary and in 2002, she became the party’s first female chairman. She ruffled feathers at that year’s Conservative conference when she told party members that they were seen as members of the “nasty party”. Some in the party have never forgiven her for it.

Mrs May – who became the UK’s most senior female politician after being appointed home secretary in 2010 – has been a prominent advocate of positive action to recruit more women Tories to winnable seats. She has persistently called for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights but she has said she would drop this policy if she became prime minister, saying there is not a parliamentary majority for it.

In 2014, she stunned the annual conference of the Police Federation by telling them corruption problems were not just limited to “a few bad apples” and threatening to end the federation’s automatic right to enrol officers as its members.

In the same year, she got into a bitter public row with cabinet colleague Michael Gove over the best way to combat Islamist extremism, which ended with Gove having to apologise to the prime minister and Mrs May having to sack a long-serving special adviser.

Prior to her parliamentary career, Mrs May worked at the Bank of England, and rose to become head of the European Affairs Unit of the Association for Payment Clearing Services.

Mrs May, who revealed in 2013 that she has type 1 diabetes, grew up in Oxfordshire, the only child of a Church of England vicar. She met her future husband Philip at university, where she studied geography, and they were married in 1980. The couple have no children.

Education: Mainly state-educated at Wheatley Park Comprehensive School with a brief time at an independent school; St Hugh’s College, Oxford

Family: Married

On her party’s future: “(It is) nothing less than the patriotic duty of our party to unite and to govern in the best interests of the whole country. We need a bold, new positive vision for the future of our country – a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us.” Says people want more than just a “Brexit PM” and has vowed to unify the Leave and Remain factions in the party.

Where she stands on Brexit: Backed Remain campaign but says vote to come out must be respected. “Brexit means Brexit. The campaign was fought, the vote was held, turnout was high and the public gave their verdict. There must be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it through the back door and no second referendum.” Mrs May also said there should be no general election before 2020 and no “emergency” Brexit budget – and that she would abandon the target of eliminating Britain’s Budget deficit by the end of the decade – a day before the chancellor himself abandoned it.

When she would trigger Article 50: Would not push the button to take Britain out of the EU before the end of 2016, to give Britain time to “finalise” its negotiating stance.

Free movement policy: “It must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe.”

She has said the status of EU nationals living in the UK would form part of the forthcoming Brexit negotiations, refusing to guarantee that they will be allowed to remain, in contrast to her rivals. She has also suggested migration could rise ahead of the UK’s eventual exit from the EU but remains committed to the government’s aim of getting net migration below 100,000 a year.

What the press say: “In a political party that struggles to shake off its elitist, old Etonian, yah-boo-sucks reputation, May represents a different kind of politician: a calm headmistress in a chamber full of over-excitable public schoolboys. She holds herself at one remove… her obdurate stance has earned her some vociferous critics. There are those who claim that, while she takes care never to sully her own hands with the grubby business of political backstabbing, she will send out her team to issue ferocious briefings against her rivals.” The Guardian.

The new PM is known for her exotic taste in shoes.

United Kingdom Gets New Prime Minister As Cameron Officially Bows out

Britain’s Home Secretary, Theresa May has emerged the country’s new Prime Minister (PM) and will assume office on Wednesday, as David Cameron in a shocking move, yesterday, announced that he will quit office on the same day.

On June 24, Cameron announced his decision to step down by October, after the UK voted to leave the European Union. Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, he said “fresh leadership” was needed. The PM had urged the country to vote Remain but was defeated by 52 per cent to 48 per cent despite London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backing staying in.

Flanked by his wife Samantha, the PM had announced that he had informed the Queen of his decision to remain in place for the short term and to then hand over to a new prime minister by the time of the Conservative conference in October.

But in a rather unexpected move, Cameron announced his decision to quit later in the week, on Monday.

Speaking outside 10 Downing Street yesterday, Cameron said he would offer his resignation to the Queen on Wednesday afternoon at Buckingham Palace.

Cameron’s decision to quit came shortly after Mrs May’s only rival, Mrs Andrea Leadsom, abruptly pulled out of the race.

Mrs May and Mrs Leadsom were due to contest a ballot of around 150,000 Conservative party members, with the result to be declared by September 9. But Mrs Leadsom unexpectedly withdrew on Monday, removing the need for a nine-week leadership contest.

Mrs May will become Britain’s second female prime minister after Margaret Thatcher and among PMs to emerge without a general election.

As the new PM, she will now be saddled with the task of steering UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.

Britain’s planned withdrawal has weakened the 28-nation bloc, created huge uncertainty over trade and investment, and shaken financial markets.

Mrs May’s victory means that the complex process of extricating Britain from the EU will be led by someone who favoured a vote to remain in last month’s membership referendum. She has said Britain needs time to work out its negotiating strategy and should not initiate formal divorce proceedings before the end of the year, but has also emphasised that ‘Brexit means Brexit’.

Last Monday, Mrs May comfortably won the first round of the contest to become the next Conservative leader.

The leadership contest was sparked by David Cameron’s decision to step down as prime minister.

The process of choosing a successor – and the new prime minister – began last on Monday, and 329 of the 330 Conservative MPs took part in a secret ballot.

The result was later announced by Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs, with Mrs May securing a comfortable lead over her rivals. The results showed that Mrs May polled 165 or 50 per cent votes while energy minister Andrea Leadsom got 66 or 20 per cent, Justice Secretary Michael Gove, 48 or 15 per cent, Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb, 34 or 10 per cent and former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, 16 or 5 per cent.

Fox, who came last was eliminated while Crabb, with 34 votes, decided to drop out.

The new prime minister, who had campaigned strongly for a Remain victory, said “fresh leadership” was required as the UK negotiates its exit from the European Union.

In a brief statement outside No 10 yesterday, Cameron said Mrs Leadsom had made “absolutely the right decision” to stand aside and that he was “delighted” Mrs May, the home secretary, was to succeed him.

He said a “prolonged period of transition” was not necessary, and added: “So tomorrow I will chair my last cabinet meeting. On Wednesday I will attend the House of Commons for Prime Minister’s Questions.

“After that I expect to go the Palace and offer my resignation.”

The prime minister described Mrs May as “strong” and “competent” and said she was “more than able to provide the leadership” the UK needs in the coming years.

“She will have my full support,” he added.

Cameron’s statement came after another day of dramatic developments in the political word, when Mrs Leadsom pulled out of the two-way leadership contest, leaving Mrs May – the front runner – as the only candidate to take over leading the party and become PM.

Mrs Leadsom said she did not have sufficient support among Conservative MPs to lead “a strong and stable government,” and gave her backing to the home secretary to succeed Cameron.

Mrs May had begun the day launching her leadership campaign to take to the party membership – and within the space of several hours found out she would be prime minister by Wednesday. Mrs May would now have to decide the make-up of her new cabinet.

According to the succession plan, after doing Prime Minister’s questions on Wednesday, Cameroon will officially tender his resignation to the Queen at Buckingham Palace and recommend she sends for Mrs May as his replacement. Mrs May will then go to Buckingham Palace to see the Queen and receive her invitation to form a government and should then be in place as UK prime minister by Wednesday evening.

As at yesterday, it remained unclear when the Cameron family would finally move out of No 10.