MAY DAY – AT 10:51 A.M. ET:  Britain will shortly have a new prime minister, and she will be the second female prime minister in the nation's history.  From NBC: 

LONDON — Theresa May will become Britain's second female prime minister after her only challenger withdrew Monday from the race to lead the ruling Conservative party.

May had been competing with Andrea Leadsom to replace David Cameron as party leader after he announced he would quit after losing last month's Brexit referendum.

However, Leadsom announced Monday she was dropping out, leaving May unopposed and forcing the Conservatives to abandon their plans for a ballot of members.

May is now expected to take over from Cameron within days, becoming the country's second female PM and the first since Margaret Thatcher stood down in 1990.

It marked another turbulent day for British politics. At the exact moment that Leadsom withdrew from the contest, lawmakers in the opposition Labour Party launched an official challenge to their embattled leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Labour now faces a months-long leadership battle of the kind that the Conservatives have just avoided.

COMMENT:  Theresa May is tough on terrorism, which she defines as the main problem facing the West.  In terms of style she's in the Maggie Thatcher tradition.  She believes in Great Britain, not half-great Britain.  Churchill would have had her in his cabinet. 

July 11, 2016