LONDON
A day after the U.K. general election took place, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday four ministers who will serve in his new cabinet.
“I have re-appointed George Osborne as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He will also be First Secretary of State - the ranking Cabinet Minister,” Cameron tweeted on Friday.
He also announced that Theresa May will remain as Home Secretary and Philip Hammond will continue to serve as Foreign Secretary.
“My final appointment tonight is Michael Fallon as Defence Secretary,” Cameron said. The other ministers of the new cabinet will be announced in the upcoming days.
Cameron’s Conservative Party won 331 seats in a vote that saw a 66.1 percent turnout.
The Labour party won 232 seats, down from 258 in the last parliament; the Liberal Democrats retained eight of the 57 seats gained in 2010; while the Green Party and UKIP won one seat apiece.
The results showed an outcome unpredicted in pre-election opinion polls, with Conservatives showing an unexpected level of success and Labour and the Liberal Democrats left devastated by what many observers said was the biggest surprise in a general election since 1945.
