Cabinet reshuffle ,Pending Brexit Divorce, Stakhanovite constitution , EU president Juncker Thoughts on New PM May
Having fought her way to the top of British politics, new Prime Minister Theresa May will face an even tougher battle in power: plotting a divorce from the European Union that she once opposed but now says must not be halted. The fate of the post-World War Two project of European integration, and even of the United Kingdom itself, will depend on May's rapport with another pastor's daughter who climbed to the summit of a conservative party: Germany's Angela Merkel. May's biggest immediate decision will be when to trigger formal exit proceedings. It is a call she will have to make while also facing an economy under extreme strain, deep division in the ruling party and potential demands from nationalists in Scotland for a referendum on independence. Despite having campaigned to remain in the EU before the June 23 Brexit referendum, May, 59, said she would steer Britain through a period of great national change as it left the EU and build an economy that worked...