Theresa May announced her team to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union and promised to build a more socially just country as she became the U.K.’s new prime minister.

May took over from David Cameron less than three weeks after Britons voted to leave the EU. She promised a “bold new positive role” for Britain abroad and less “burning injustice” at home, drawing lessons from last month’s bitter referendum and making a pitch for the center-ground of politics where U.K. elections are traditionally won.

Among her first actions, May fired George Osborne, the chief strategist of Cameron’s administration and the architect of his flagship austerity policies, as finance minister. She replaced him with Philip Hammond, the former foreign secretary.

Prominent conservatives who campaigned to get Britain out of the EU were given the task of seeing the job through, starting with former London Mayor Boris Johnson, who was named foreign secretary, in the day’s most surprising move. Working with him will be David Davis, who was assigned the task of overseeing Brexit negotiations, and Liam Fox, who will have to negotiate new trade deals.

“The domestic-facing portfolios are Remain and the outward facing ones are Leave,” Steven Fielding, a professor of political history at the University of Nottingham, said by phone. “If the Brexit negotiations don’t go as people would like, then it’s the Leave people who’ll take the blame.”

Theresa May announced her team to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union and promised to build a more socially just country as she became the U.K.’s new prime minister.

May took over from David Cameron less than three weeks after Britons voted to leave the EU. She promised a “bold new positive role” for Britain abroad and less “burning injustice” at home, drawing lessons from last month’s bitter referendum and making a pitch for the center-ground of politics where U.K. elections are traditionally won.

Among her first actions, May fired George Osborne, the chief strategist of Cameron’s administration and the architect of his flagship austerity policies, as finance minister. She replaced him with Philip Hammond, the former foreign secretary.

Prominent conservatives who campaigned to get Britain out of the EU were given the task of seeing the job through, starting with former London Mayor Boris Johnson, who was named foreign secretary, in the day’s most surprising move. Working with him will be David Davis, who was assigned the task of overseeing Brexit negotiations, and Liam Fox, who will have to negotiate new trade deals.

“The domestic-facing portfolios are Remain and the outward facing ones are Leave,” Steven Fielding, a professor of political history at the University of Nottingham, said by phone. “If the Brexit negotiations don’t go as people would like, then it’s the Leave people who’ll take the blame.”

David Fuller's view

We are accustomed to hearing new Prime Ministers talk of inclusiveness in their first speeches.  Nevertheless, Theresa May went further and struck the right note in my opinion.

You can judge for yourself in listening to her brief speech of 4:19 minutes, found in the article above.