PM May hands environment ministry to beaten leadership rival Leadsom

Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Brexit campaigner Andrea Leadsom, who this week dropped out as her rival in the Conservative leadership contest, as environment secretary in her new cabinet on Thursday. Leadsom had made it through to the run-off stage of the race to succeed former prime minister David Cameron thanks to a wave of eurosceptic support following Britain's EU referendum, but surprisingly pulled out on Monday, effectively handing the job to May. Her withdrawal came after a newspap