Theresa May replaces David Cameron as UK Prime Minister

Theresa May took over as Britain’s prime minister Wednesday. She is tasked with steering the country through the Brexit crisis.

The  59-year-old Theresa May replaced David Cameron, who incidentally is the first political casualty of last month’s referendum when he announced his intention to quit hours after the result.

She is the second woman in the job, following in the steps of fellow Conservative Margaret Thatcher — who was nicknamed the “Iron Lady” and whose decade-long political partnership with President Ronald Reagan helped reshape the global order in the 1980s.

May has done little to discourage her reputation as a ruthless political operator, saying that the next person to find her “bloody difficult” would be President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.

British columnist Quentin Letts described May as “dull as porridge” and “extremely dependable” but stressed that she is “not a humorist” and would “pursue the British national interest above all else.”