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I am at Westminster, with a special edition of Outside Source. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Theresa May becomes Britain's new Prime Minister. | :00:13. | :00:33. | |
Together, we will build a better Britain. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Theresa May was officially appointed by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
She has already appointed some key posts in her cabinet. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
The most eye-catching so far is that the former mayor | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
of London, Boris Johnson, is Foreign Secretary. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Earlier, David Cameron made his resignation | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
speech, with his wife and children beside him. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
He made a passionate defence of his time in office. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
as we leave for the last time, my only wish is the continued success | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
of this great country which I love so very much. Thank you. I will | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
bring you all the details of the quite remarkable day. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
I'm Karin Giannone in the BBC Newsroom, here in London. | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
We will also get international reaction to today's events, | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
including from Europe, where they will be eager to know | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Get in touch using the hashtag bbc os. | :01:29. | :01:44. | |
Good evening from Westminster and welcome back to Outside Source. | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
Theresa May is spending her first night inside Downing Street as Prime | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
But she has not wasted any time in getting down to business. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
We have already seen several high-profile cabinet appointments. | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
We can talk to Vicki Young in Downing St. | :02:05. | :02:16. | |
We can talk to Rob Johnson. Boris Johnson is the name that may have | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
taken people by surprise. The blonde bombshell of Brexit. I think she has | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
done because he is very popular with activists. And I also think that it | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
is a good post for him simply to be out of that weird bit. But he is a | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
very good salesman. She thinks he may be ideal in a post Brexit world. | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
How many people will be surprise, especially with the comments he has | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
made in his newspaper column. A real break with their past, as well, with | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
the likes of George Osborne leaving. David Cameron and George Osborne was | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
very much a get one and get one free. I do not think this is so much | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
of an ideological change, but she is joined to save, this is a new start. | :03:28. | :03:39. | |
She was also seeing that the government was not going to be for | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
the privileged few. We have just had the key positions. Is there any | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
sense of this being a Theresa May government. I think you get the | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
sense that she is trying to balance Brexit with her side of the argument | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
to remain in the European Union. She does not want to start off by having | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
an almighty fall out with the Conservative Party members and the | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
other MPs. We have a leading Brexit campaigner kicking charge of | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
negotiating that exit from the European Union. We have another | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Brexit campaigner with this new Trade Minister position, Liam Fox. | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
Her speech was interesting, pointing out that she was not going to run a | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
government for the privileged. I think she was trying to appeal to a | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
lot of these people who had voted to leave the European Union. She David | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
Cameron had said he wanted to use this term to shake off the image of | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
the Conservative Party of being only for the rich and privileged. She has | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
said that he had started that work. Clearly, she is intent on carrying | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
that time. But no we are in this position where we have two negotiate | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
our exit from the European Union. It is not going to be easy. Thank you | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
very much for joining us. With the arrival of | :05:41. | :05:40. | |
So with Theresa May's arrival here today, | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
and he won a Conservative majority at the last general election, | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
His time in office was dominated by the economy and trying | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
But a crushing referendum defeat has forced him out. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Nick Robinson reports now on Mr Cameron's legacy. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
It began where it ended, on the doorstep of Number 10. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
It began with success which few expected and ended in failure, | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
David Cameron became our youngest Prime Minister for 200 years, | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
not because he won an election but because he won over Nick Clegg | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
Prime Minister, do you now regret when once asked what your favourite | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
The joke was on those who said the coalition could never last. | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
Love it or loathe it, theirs would be a stable government, | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
unlike most countries in Europe after the worst economic | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
The cuts they said they had to make and what was called the age | :06:37. | :06:48. | |
This afternoon, the man who was Mr Cameron's Director | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
of Communications spoke to me in a quiet, now empty, | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
There was a dinner at Downing Street last night where David Cameron had | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
And somebody paying tribute to him said he was a quiet revolutionary | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
He started by forming a coalition government and that really | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
And he showed the vision and determination to do it | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
because he gave economic stability to the country at a time | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Many Tories did not much like the coalition, | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
A Conservative Prime Minister siding with gay campaigners | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
and against those who insisted marriage should only be | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
And his decision to increase spending on overseas aid | :07:33. | :07:44. | |
while cutting it at home was scarcely more popular, | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
with a growing number tempted to back Ukip, | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
a party that was winning more and more support, even though he'd | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
once dismissed them as a home for fruitcakes and loonies. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
I have been up half the night and this is absolutely marvellous! | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Amid growing pressure from within and without, | :08:00. | :08:00. | |
David Cameron made this fateful promise. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
We will give the British people a referendum with a very | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
To stay in the European Union on these new terms or to | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
It was a massive gamble that EU leaders would give him a better deal | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
and the British voters would back it. | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
A gamble that was to go spectacularly wrong. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
This issue of whether or not Britain remained in or out of EU | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
It just happen to land on the station on his watch. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
It was inevitable that there was going to be a referendum. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
He showed real leadership, guts and determination in calling it. | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
It didn't work out for him but there was real leadership there. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Some said a referendum was too risky, but David Cameron agreed | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
to another on Scottish independence and though it looked | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
mighty close at times, he won it, thanks to | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
what Yes campaigners complained was Project Fear. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
His next big electoral test was last year's General Election. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
He warned that electing Ed Miliband would produce instability and chaos. | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
But I suggested to him that that is precisely what would result | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
And if you don't win the referendum, what is Plan B for Britain? | :09:06. | :09:15. | |
You may have a negotiation you cannot succeed in. | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
And a vote that if you lose, and Britain will be out of the EU. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
It was, although, a popular - perhaps | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
an election-winning - promise. | :09:31. | :09:31. | |
We are saying the Conservatives are the largest party. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
But just 13 months later, another electoral surprise. | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
David Cameron had led us out of the EU by mistake. | :09:38. | :09:54. | |
In the end, his legacy will be having ripped up Britain's | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
relationships with our nearest neighbours and also left a country | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
that is very divided and that wasn't what he wanted to do. | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
That is why the Cameron family were forced to leave Number 10 | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
today, two years earlier than they had originally planned. | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
In a few days, David Cameron will take his place on the wall | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
here at Number 10 alongside other former Prime Ministers. | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
When he got the job he told me that what mattered was character. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
He left office today because of one decision that went terribly wrong. | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
Nick Robinson, BBC News, 10 Downing Street. | :10:25. | :10:36. | |
Earlier, I caught up with the Former British Ambassador | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
to the United States, Sir Christopher Meyer. | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
I began by asking him what people in capitals around the world will be | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
wondering, as they watch these events unfold in the UK. | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
the world be wondering what British foreign policy is going to do next. | :10:54. | :11:06. | |
They are now leaving Europe. Obviously, the Prime Minister has | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
made that clear. Other countries will no be seen what Britain going | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
to do, are they going to be inward looking. They have to make it clear | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
that this is an opportunity to for Britain boat in the world. We do not | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
want to become a shrivelled little island off the coast of Europe. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Around the world, look out for a radically new different British | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
foreign policy. One that seeks to exploit possibilities and | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
relationships all over the world. It is the logical thing to do. If | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
you're going to leave the European Union, you have to reach out to all | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
the other allies and partners we have around the world. I think we | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
will see a big push in that direction. He are seeing a short | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
while ago that there had dealings with America as Home Secretary give | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
you some pointers. I think it will be fundamentally the same as it has | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
been. Theresa May Is a realist foreign policy and she will realise | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
that the United States remains our most important partner and ally, but | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
she will be afraid and she has form in this, to stand up to the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
Americans when they start to do things which damage British | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
interests. The classic case was the Gary McKinnon case, the British | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
computer hacker. The Americans wanted to extradite him to the | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
United States. She refused. In that respect, I think she will have a | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
good relationship, but she will be may be very like Mrs Thatcher and we | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
she did that. You are a former diplomat, how difficult will that | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
Eadie of negotiating Brexit B. I think it is going to be something of | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
great complexity. It comes in two parts. That is the pecking all the | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
things that have netted us together to the European Union over the next | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
40 years and then that is the construction of a new relationship | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
with the 27 countries within the European Union, with regard to | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
trade. What is that commercial went relationship going to be? There | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
needs to be a strategy in place. We seek expect to see news about that | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
soon. We saw David Cameron earlier on. He was listing has achievements | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
as Prime Minister. Will his legacy be one work, which is Brexit? I fear | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
that David Cameron, who in many respects was a great Prime Minister, | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
will have on his political tombstone, the word Brexit, just as | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
Tony Blair has his political tombstone, the word Iraq. | :14:26. | :14:42. | |
That's all from me at Westminster. Back to Karin in the studio. | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
I will be talking to Katty Kay in Washington shortly, | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
for the view from the US of Britain's new prime minister | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
Millions of people up and down the country will be reflecting | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
tonight on what lies ahead for Britain's new Prime Minister | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
and whether she will deliver on her pledges for a | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
"fairer economy", changes to immigration and the best | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
Our correspondent Jon Kay has been sampling the people's view | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
With politics turned on its head, a Trampoline Park seems | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
Swindon voted for Brexit but after all the twists and turns | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
of the last few weeks, people here say what they want most | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
I hope she will steady us and put our worries at rest. | :15:28. | :15:39. | |
With everything that has to be done, she has a tough job on her hands. | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
The new Prime Minister faces some huge challenges. | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
Jane hopes Mrs May will not just focus on Brexit. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
There are so many other things that are important, the NHS, schools, | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
so much else going on that I would like her to move | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
on from that and start focusing on other things besides | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
In the town centre, the people of Swindon watched | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
as the transfer of power got under way at Westminster. | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
We asked voters to give us one word to describe the kind | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
of Prime Minister may want to Theresa May to be. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
I think she should be a good listener. | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
I think she should be a good listener. | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
Because it is about time we had somebody who listens to the people. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Somebody who will walk the walk and not just talk the talk. | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
To the Swindon Steam Museum, where grandmother Denise is worried | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
by the fact that Mrs May did not want Brexit, she hopes the new Prime | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
If we don't crack on with it, we are dragging our feet, we are not... | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
I think we have to be seen to be as strong as a country. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
Many visitors told us that Theresa May needs to unite | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
What should be top of her to-do list? | :17:17. | :17:35. | |
This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom. | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Theresa May has become the new British prime minister. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
She was officially appointed by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
She has been making her cabinet appointments. | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
Boris Johnson will be foreign secretary. | :17:50. | :18:01. | |
David Davis has also been appointed as the Secretary of State in charge | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
The White House has congratulated Theresa May on her appointment | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
She becomes the country's second female leader after | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
She also joins a number of women leaders in the World as BBC | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
points out, ahead of the US Elections this year. | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
"If Hillary wins in November, the US, UK, Germany, | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
Federal Reserve and IMF will all be run by women". | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
Katty has just co-authored a book called Womanomics, | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
which takes a look at the largely hidden power that women have | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
She joins us from our Washington studio. | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
What a scenario, how would this affect waddled dynamics? It could | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
potentially be include the United Nations as well come off with women | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
is tipped to take over the top job there as well. It is a scenario that | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
probably even 20 years ago would have been unthinkable. Two of three | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
of the three big global economies and two of the most important | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
financial institutions in the world being run by women. It is clearly | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
unprecedented. It is also important in that it sends a message to young | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
women that it is possible to have those jobs. They see role models in | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
the top positions. If you believe as I do and the evidence seems to | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
suggest that we are all better off when there is a mix of men and women | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
running things, it is probably quite good news. You mentioned Hillary | :19:48. | :19:57. | |
Clinton. As the country ready for easy meal president? I think so. I | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
am not hearing on the campaign trail that people are not prepared to vote | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
for her because of that. I hear a lot of criticism of her, | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
particularly from younger women, but it is nothing to do with her gender. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
Younger women see that they are convinced that they will have a | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
female president in the life thing, they are just not sure if they | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
wanted to be Hillary Clinton. Other people think it is a question of | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
urgency. Older people want to see it sooner rather than later. They | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
recovered her as the best shot. So I think people here would be ready to | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
elect her. The Playhouse has congratulated Theresa May on | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
becoming Prime Minister. Paul will remake of Boris Johnson in the | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
unique -- United States? Theresa May Is not particularly well known in | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the United States, but Boris Johnson is actually quite well known. I do | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
not know if they would take him very seriously. The see him as something | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
of a showman. The do not really look much about his record as the Mayor | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
of London. It will be interesting to see how he manages the relationships | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
in Washington. But they have already said that the United Kingdom, is a | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
country that the view as the valuable ally. It will be | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
interesting to see how this plays out. | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
One of Theresa May's first tasks as PM was to appoint a minister | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
to take charge of Britain's exit from the European Union. | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
He will be former shadow home secretary, David Davis. | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
Today, top EU officials said they wanted things to stay civil | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Let me show you this comment from the European Council President | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
He told the Polish media that: "No one should be seething with desire | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
"to punish or humiliate (the British) for what | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
"We cannot push them away from us, but we cannot let them profit | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
from Brexit, as that would be lethal for the EU." | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
Our correspondent, Katya Adler, has more on the view from Europe. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
For the rest of Europe, the significance of Theresa May | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
becoming British Prime Minister is this - she will be the figurehead | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
leading Britain's exit from the European Union, | :22:26. | :22:26. | |
and she will need to negotiate the details | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
In an awkward situation, maintaining cordial | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
Today, on an official visit to China, the EU | :22:32. | :22:43. | |
I will not negotiate with Britain in a hostile mood. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
I'm not giving public advice to the incoming | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
I don't want to lecture her, I don't want to talk about her | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
It's here in Brussels that Theresa May will meet all EU leaders | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
for the very first time at a summit in a couple of months, | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
and she'll be anxious to grab that opportunity to talk | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
to them off the record - perhaps over a cup of coffee - | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
about the kind of deal the UK can expect outside the EU. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
But she'll have her work cut out for her, because some of those | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
leaders don't want to talk a word about Brexit until the formal | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
process of the UK leaving has started. | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
It's going to be quite some juggling act. | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
It wants tough negotiations to put others, especially | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
Eurosceptic French voters, off pushing to leave the EU. | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
Italy wants to send a strong message, too - | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
with its own economic and political problems it needs | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
While Eastern and Baltic Europe don't want to alienate Britain. | :23:45. | :23:57. | |
They need UK backing to keep a hard line against Russia. | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
But this, arguably, is Theresa May's most important negotiating partner | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
Like Theresa May, steely, wily, determined. | :24:03. | :24:14. | |
Of course, Theresa May is no stranger to Brussels. | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
She's been here many times for EU ministers' meetings. | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
But officials here warn she shouldn't underestimate them. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Theresa May was well-known, she will find people who know her, | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
who will negotiate on equal footing with her - but, I repeat, | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
Even for someone with a reputation as a tough negotiator, like Mrs May? | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
Theresa May is a tough negotiator, I can assure you here | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
in the European Parliament are tough negotiators as well. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
The EU/UK relationship has never been easy. | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
Theresa May now represents a Britain that has voted to Leave. | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
She'll find safeguarding UK interests here even more complex, | :24:46. | :24:48. |