Theresa May takes power as the new UK prime minister officially received by the Queen to form New Gov Administration
The Queen received in audience the Right Honourable Theresa May MP this evening and requested her to form a new Administration. The Queen received in audience the Right Honourable Theresa May MP this evening and requested her to form a new Administration. The Right Honourable Theresa May accepted Her Majesty's offer and Kissed Hands upon her appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury. May, 59 assumed office after an audience with Queen Elizabeth. An official photograph showed her curtseying and shaking hands with the smiling monarch, for whom she is the 13th prime minister in a line that started with Winston Churchill. Theresa May replaced David Cameron as Britain's prime minister on Wednesday, assuming responsibility for the monumental task of negotiating a complex divorce from the European Union. Cameron stepped down after Britons rejected his entreaties and voted to leave the EU in a referendum last month, severely unde...