Photo Gallery May's Day
Prime Minister Theresa May entered office with the pretense of changing the country. She wants to reunite the disunited kingdom -- poor and rich, Scots and English -- and she isn't afraid of making enemies.
May's biggest task will be that of leading the country out of the European Union, even though, as many believe, she is actually pro-EU. The Brexit referendum divided the country into two adversarial camps.
At the recent EU summit in Brussels on October 20-21, May was largely isolated. Because Britain hasn't yet triggered Article 50 to start the Brexit process, negotiations cannot yet begin in earnest.
In the UK, many of those who voted in favor of remaining in the EU have continued to hold demonstrations. Theresa May has suggested that she will chart the course of a "hard Brexit," which means the country would leave the common market. That, however, could do immense harm to the British economy.
Prime Minister May together with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. May has inevitably been compared to Margaret Thatcher, the country's only previous female prime minister. But where Thatcher governed with implacability and defiance, May spends her nights working her way through dossiers in order to be better prepared than any of her ministers.
May's view is that the British have decided to become a different country, one with fewer immigrants and less European influence. The voters, she believes, have decided to turn their backs on the country's traditional partners on the Continent in the hopes that the world is waiting to embrace the British.
