国际英语资讯:Britains new PM assembles top team in biggest reshuffle for over 50 years_时事

国际英语资讯:Britains new PM assembles top team in biggest reshuffle for over 50 years

Loyal Johnson supporter Liz Truss has been appointed International Development Secretary. She was second-in-command at the Treasury in May's cabinet and in 2016 became the first female Lord Chancellor.

There was also a top job for former Environment Secretary Michael Gove who had a spectacular fall-out with Johnson in the 2016 leadership election which saw Theresa May emerge as prime minister. In that campaign Gove scuppered the leadership hopes of Johnson by announcing his own candidature on the morning Johnson was due to launch his campaign. Johnson stunned his allies by withdrawing from the contest.

Gove was also a contender in the recent contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

Political commentators said it appeared Johnson and Gove have "buried the hatchet", with Gove appointed as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The holder of the title is usually the de-facto deputy prime minister.

In his first speech as prime minister, on the steps of Downing Street, Johnson said he had a message for the doubters, the doomsters and the gloomsters, adding "they are going to get it wrong again. The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts."

"We are going to fulfill the repeated promises of parliament to the people and come out of the EU on Oct. 31, no ifs or buts," he said.

"And we will do a new deal, a better deal that will maximize the opportunities of Brexit while allowing us to develop a new and exciting partnership with the rest of Europe based on free trade and mutual support. I have every confidence that in 99 days' time we will have cracked it."