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Briferendum Aftermath Series: Theresa May gets on with her third task at hand

Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May is moving at a lightning speed or at least much faster than most of us had expected and rightly so. The biggest risk the UK economy is the uncertainties and the best to way to clear them is to act as fast as possible but not recklessly fast.

She handled her first task which is to unite the conservative party and make the lawmakers rally behind her pretty fast with surprise pickings of the top Brexiteer lawmakers as her cabinet ministers. Boris Johnson has been picked as foreign secretary, Eurosceptic David Davies would be leading the Brexit negotiations, and Liam Fox has been selected as the President of the board of Trade.

She quickly moved on to handle the next and much tougher one, which was to unite the divided kingdom after the referendum vote. Wales and England voted to exit the EU, while Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Gibraltar voted to stay within. Mrs. May visited the toughest opponent of Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland and they agreed that there will be a UK-wide approach and common grounds will be found before the Article 50 is triggered. May is likely to provide all these states seats to the negotiating table.

She has now moved on to the third and most difficult of the task and that is within two weeks of becoming the Prime Minister. She went to Berlin yesterday and met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She will be visiting French President Francois Hollande today. While the EU leaders have said there will be no informal talks with Britain unless the Article 50 is triggered, these visits very well mark the beginning of the unofficial negotiations. So far, she has secured some breathing space for the UK before triggering Article 50.

 

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