WELL, the deal is done.

The country now has a new Prime Minister - Theresa May.

One of her first decisions was to install Boris Johnson as the head of the Foreign Office. This indicated that Theresa May may not be up to the mark.

Boris Johnson has recently upset lots of people in many parts of the world.

He has referred to President Barack Obama as “a part Kenyan with an ancestral dislike of Britain”.

He described Hilary Clinton as “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.

His list of insults is large.

These insults from a person whose job it is to roam the world negotiating with countries to forge sources of trade and industry and harmony, which is now of extreme urgency to this country after the referendum result to exit the EU.

Boris Johnson may have a lot of humble pie to eat.

I was no Tony Blair fan but after this laughable appointment all I can think of is “things can only get better”.

Well, they really can’t get any worse after this miscalculated and inappropriate appointment that will probably turn Great Britain into the laughing stock of the world.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York