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In just two days' time, she'll be moving in to Number 10 | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The sudden development took Mrs May by surprise. | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
She rushed back to London to make a statement | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
I am honoured and humbled to have been chosen | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
by the Conservative Party to become its leader. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Earlier this morning, her rival Andrea Leadsom fell | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
on her sword and quit after a bruising weekend | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
The interests of our country are best served by the immediate | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
appointment of a strong and well supported Prime Minister. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
Now deprived of a leadership contest, what do the Tory party | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Some members of the party will feel a bit cheated, | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
and will feel that Andrea has thrown the towel in too early. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Meanwhile, one party that will be having a leadership contest | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
is Labour, after Angela Eagle formally launches her bid | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Jordan Spieth has pulled out of the Olympics beacuse of fears | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
The top four players in the world have all withdrawn from Rio. | :01:21. | :01:50. | |
If you were thinking Westminster politics couldn't get any more | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
We now know that the next Prime Minister will be Theresa May, | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
after her rival for the Tory party leadership, Andrea Leadsom, | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
And as for David Cameron staying as PM until September - not any more. | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
Theresa May will be moving into Number 10 | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
In the last half-hour, Mrs May said she was honoured | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has been | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
following today's fast-moving developments. | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
Our new Prime Minister and the Torys' new leader. I am honoured and | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
humbled to have been chosen by the Conservative Party to become its | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
leader. I would like to pay tribute to the other candidates during the | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
election campaign, and I would like to pay tribute to Andrea Leadsom for | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
the dignity she is shown today. After the anger and arguments of the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
referendum campaign and its brutal aftermath, even to make her party | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
work would be quite a feat. Frexit means Brexit, and we are going to | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
make a success of it. Dub-dash Brexit. We need to unite our | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
country, and we need a strong new positive vision for the future of | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
our country, the vision of a country that works not for the privileged | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
few, but for everyone of us, because we are going to give people more | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
control over their lives. That's how, together, we will build a | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
better Britain. You. Theresa May is in because she walked out. Just | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
before 11 this morning the rumour mill began to well, was Andrea | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
Leadsom, the eurosceptics' darling, about to quit? The grim faces of her | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
supporters confirmed it. For me to have won the support of 84 of my | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
colleagues on Thursday was a great expression of confidence for which I | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
am incredibly grateful. Nevertheless, this is less and 25% | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
of the Parliamentary party, and after careful consideration, I do | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
not believe this is sufficient support to lead a strong and stable | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
government, should I win the leadership election. I have, | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
however, concluded that the interests of our country are best | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
served by the immediate appointment of a strong and well supported Prime | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
Minister. I am therefore withdrawing from the leadership election, and I | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
wish Theresa May the very greatest success. Why have you changed your | :04:39. | :04:48. | |
mind? There was disbelief in one of Westminster's impossibly immaculate | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
side streets. Some of her supporters are furious. About what they called | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
the abuse that was thrown at her, especially after she suggested in an | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
interview that she would be a good Prime Minister partly because she | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
has children and Theresa May does not. One of her team told me simply, | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
the abuse was too much. With 199 MPs supporting Theresa May, we think it | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
is in the best interests of the country to say should withdraw. Has | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
she been bullied out of it? I wouldn't put it in those terms. We | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
face very sophisticated opponents in this contest. They carefully | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
positioned her as something she is not, and if we were to continue, the | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
damage would be too great. The level of personal abuse that has been | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
directed at her is something I have been rather appalled about. Even if | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Mrs May was the overwhelming favourite, we should have had a | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
contest, so I am disappointed. I'm sure Andrea has made this decision | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
for very good reasons, and I'm sure there's a lot of pressure, but I | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
can't deny that I am disappointed. It is 12:20pm now. Andrea Leadsom's | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
surprise decision to move out of the leadership rests -- race means that | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
in the next few days, the next Prime Minister could be in Number 10. Now | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
over to the party machine to decide what happens to the government next. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
They didn't waste any time. Following the decision of Mrs Andrea | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Leadsom to withdraw from the Conservative Party leadership | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
contest, Theresa May is the only leadership candidate. Could she be | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
the Prime Minister by the end of this week? Buries a constitutional | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
process to gone through. In the space of less than half an hour, | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Andrea Leadsom has quit the race, and the Tory party have confirmed | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Theresa May will be the next Prime Minister. Are you looking at the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
face of Theresa May's next Cabinet's Tory MPs who have given overwhelming | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
support, and were ready for a long campaign to Number 10. But they will | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
not need it now. He will not stay any longer than is polite to leave | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Downing Street. We do not need a long period of transition, so | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
tomorrow I will chair my last Cabinet meeting. On Wednesday I will | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
attend the House of Commons for Prime Minister's Questions, and | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
after that, I will go to the palace and offer my resignation. So we will | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
have a new Prime Minister in that building behind me by Wednesday | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
evening. Toulouse office must be painful, but perhaps with it, some | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
might relief. A cheer from the Prime Minister. We will not call him that | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
for long. Theresa May is one of Britain's | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
longest-serving Home Secretaries - a keen advocate of modernising | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
the Conservatives and shedding its image as the | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
so-called "nasty party". She has also faced criticism | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
for failing to meet promises Our Deputy Political Editor, | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
John Pienaar, looks at Mrs May's route to the top job - | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
and what kind of Just moments before she knew the job | :08:01. | :08:13. | |
was hers, Theresa May opened up a little. She doesn't do showing, | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
thinks Britain has had enough surprises, but her mission is a big | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
one. A society that works for everyone, so we bring people back | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
together, North and south, urban and rural, young and old, male and | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
female, black and white, sick and healthy, those with skills and those | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
without. Reaching well beyond the Tory tribe. It was a pitch to be a | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
one nation Prime Minister, uniting a divided country. Curbs on corporate | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
pay and more homes built. We need to unite our party and our country. We | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
need a bold new vision for the future of our country, one that | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
works not for the privileged few, but for everyone of us. She wanted | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
to stay in the EU, yes, but that was then. She looked control EU | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
migration and get the best deal for Britain. Brexit means Brexit, and we | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
will make a success of it. Theresa May's story is unremarkable. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Middle-class, Grammar School and Oxford, where she met her husband, | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
who was at her side today. Home is home, work is separate. She's | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
private, and likes it like that. But since her time working in the city, | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
since the start of her political career, she relied on herself, and | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
never saw her gender as an obstacle to rising higher. I have never | :09:41. | :09:53. | |
experienced any barriers in the Conservative Party. Is she a | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
feminist? That is a woman who asks gets no favours, according her. Many | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Tories hated it when she told them, in opposition, that many hated them. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Our base is too narrow. Many call us the nasty party. A police conference | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
might have even less when she told them they had to change, when she | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
was Home Secretary. Theresa May never liked David Cameron's pledge | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
to get immigration below 100,000. Some colleagues thought she was too | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
tough and pushed too hard to get numbers down when colleges and | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
businesses wanted more. But they are all acting her now, including a | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
former rival watching from across the Atlantic. She has the integrity, | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
strength and leadership that our country needs. In Britain and around | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
the world, the British economy need certainty. It is in everyone's | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
interests that she takes up the position of Prime Minister in the | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
coming days. We'll Theresa May own a mention among Britain's's most | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
notable leaders? Who knows. But she is coming to power in the most | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
testing time since the Second World War. Tonight, the party will rally | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
round, and she will enjoy something of a political honeymoon. But over | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
the coming months and years, the harsh realities of government can | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
only compare harshly to the dreams of leadership that she nursed with | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
her future husband at her side as a young woman. | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is here now. | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
Now that we know that Theresa May is going to be moving in here on | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Wednesday, she will have lots of key decisions to made. | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
This lightning turn of events seems to have taken most | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
There are big days ahead, but events today have gone 1 million miles an | :11:39. | :11:52. | |
hour. We have had to run from one event to another. That is in | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
contrast to Theresa May's style. She is a steady, careful politician. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Officials say she likes to read every document and look at every | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
detail herself before deciding anything. I think we will see a very | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
different style of leadership here under her. She's not flash. She | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
doesn't try to be votess' friends. She doesn't try to comment on | :12:16. | :12:28. | |
anything or be on the television every single night. She is somebody | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
who wants to emphasise, almost every time she appears in public, that her | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
priority is getting on with the job. When that job is being the Prime | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Minister, that is a very tall order. It's one thing to say that she likes | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
to keep her head down when you are Home Secretary, but quite another to | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
do that when you are in charge at Number 10. She is taking over at a | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
time when the Tory party is split from top to bottom over Europe. | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
Those who campaigned to leave, they were tricky under David Cameron, but | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
they may prove far trickier under Theresa May. This morning, we | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
thought it would be a couple of months before we knew who would run | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
the country. In events that have surprised everybody today, we now | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
know, and we have days until she walks through the door door. Thank | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
you. The decision on who should lead | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
the Conservatives was to be decided by the party's 150,000 | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
members this summer. But the withdrawal of Mrs Leadsom | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
from the race means they will no longer have a say in who should | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
be their future leader. Our correspondent Danny Savage | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
reports from Harrogate. England's largest county, | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
and overwhelmingly Conservative. With only one hat left in the ring | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
for Tory leader, voters here are surprised, but fairly | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
positive about today's events. Do you think she can | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
unite the party? She is a very experienced | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
lady in government. And you are a Conservative | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
supporter. But you're happy | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
with that? I'm happy with that, | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
yes. I just don't know, it's something | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
to do with the lady, I think she will be | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
fine as Prime Minister. I know she said she's | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
going to operate the Brexit ASAP. I think it is going to be incredibly | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
difficult for somebody who believed I'm not quite sure how | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
it is all going to work. But what about the next level up | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
in party politics? These three would have had a vote | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
in the leadership ballot. Do you think Conservative members | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
will be disappointed that they don't have a chance to vote | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
on the next leader? I think some members of the party | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
will feel a bit cheated. And will feel that Andrea has thrown | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
the towel in too early, really. I would have voted | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
for Theresa anyway. I think the news that Andrea has | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
pulled out today means that we can install Theresa as our leader | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
and Prime Minister in a much I think that is very | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
good for the country. I also think it is important | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
that we start to put The voters have decided we're | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
going to go out, and therefore And getting on with it is a message | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
we repeatedly heard today. A broad welcome from the broad acres | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
of certainty at the top As you've been hearing, | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
Theresa May will be the next prime minister after her rival | :15:26. | :15:42. | |
Andrea Leadsom unexpectedly quit And still to come, we've | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
been to Gosport that voted to leave the EU - | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
what do people there make of having a prime minister | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
who campaigned to stay in? A day after winning Wimbledon, | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Andy Murray says he is very unlikely The quarterfinal against | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Serbia starts on Friday. Well one party that will be having | :16:02. | :16:22. | |
a leadership contest now is Labour. The ex shadow business secretary | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
Angela Eagle has formally launched her attempt | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
to oust Jeremy Corbyn. She told supporters these were 'dark | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
times for Labour' and she couldn't stand back while Britain became | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
a one party Tory state. Mr Corbyn has said he'll | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
fight any challenge. Here's our Political | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
Correspondent Ben Wright. Dug in and fighting on. Are you | :16:41. | :16:54. | |
prepared for a leadership challenge? Labour MPs have pleaded with Jeremy | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
Corbyn to go but persuasion has failed and a leadership challenge is | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
on. This is the Labour MP leading the charge. I have lodged my papers | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
with the general secretary today to launch this challenge. Angela Eagle | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
had threatened to charge for days but with the country in political | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
turmoil she said that Labour could not put up with weak leadership any | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
longer. We know to be leader of the Labour Party you have got to lead in | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Parliament as well and we have seen Jeremy not do that job. He has been | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
hiding behind a door, not talking to his Members of Parliament. That is | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
not leadership. She has the support of many parties towards, longing for | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
a change of leadership but Angela Eagle promised to be a break from | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
the past. I'm not a Blairite, a Brownite or Corbin style politician. | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
I am my own woman. The former Shadow Business Secretary has been a Labour | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
MP since 1992 and has a twin sister, Maria, also a Member of Parliament. | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
It is not clear whether Jeremy Corbyn will be able to stand in the | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
coming contest. The Labour ruling body will decide tomorrow if he | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
needs nominations from MPs and MEPs to get on the ballot or if he has an | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
automatic right. And powerful trade union figures are standing firm | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
beside Jeremy Corbyn, today Len McCluskey denounced what he called a | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
political lynching. This was a despicable and cowardly act, a | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Westminster coup, perpetrated on a decent man, a kind man, a man who | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
has a complete mandate, a massive mandate from the membership of the | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
party. Jeremy Corbyn has lost the confidence of most Labour MPs, they | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
think he is an electoral disaster and they want him gone. But Jeremy | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
Corbyn is banking on the backing of Labour Party members and paid up | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
supporters to elect him again. It is that split that has thrown the party | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
into crisis. Labour membership numbers continue to grow with some | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
websites trying to sign up people who want to test out Jeremy Corbyn | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
and others trying to shore up his support on the left. Labour, their | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
ongoing agonies are stark contrast to the Conservatives doodle bugs | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
with replacement of a leader. The contest both now imminent. | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Now for some of the day's other stories. | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
Two Turkish men have been found guilty of smuggling cocaine - | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
with an estimated street value of half a billion pounds - | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
The vessel was intercepted last year by the Royal Navy | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
and the Border Force following an international operation. | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
Cutting equipment was used to get access to the hidden stash of drugs | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
The RMT Union has accused the train operator Southern Rail of living | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
in an "insane parallel universe" after it cancelled hundreds | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
of services a day, in response to months of disruption | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
The company says the new timetable will provide certainty | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
It has blamed action by RMT members and high levels of staff sickness | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
for cancellations on services from the south coast to London. | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
The parents of a man who died when his car was hit by a speeding | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
driver today put the wreckage on display outside Parliament. | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
It was part of their campaign for tougher sentences for those | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
who cause fatal crashes in dangerous circumstances. | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
Joseph Brown-Lartey died when his car was struck by a vehicle | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
travelling at more than 80 miles an hour. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
That driver - Addil Haroon - was jailed for six years, | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Back to our main story and the news that Theresa May will be Prime | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
She of course campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
during the referendum, but stressed today that she accepts | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
the result and that "Brexit means Brexit". | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
But how do some of the millions of people who voted | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
for Britain to leave the EU feel about having a new Prime Minister | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports from Gosport in Hampshire, | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Once home to Britain's submarine service, Gosport can often feel | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
submerged by its larger neighbour, Portsmouth. | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
But in the EU referendum, it stood out as one of the most | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
So what do Leave voters here think of Theresa May, | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
Do you think it is a betrayal of the way the country voted? | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
I mean, the country spoke and everyone went well, | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
Yes, I think we're being stabbed in back. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
And on Gosport high street many Leave voters shared that angry | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
You would have preferred a Leave Prime Minister? | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Because then I know that we would have left. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
Because we voted out, which means we want to get out | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
How disappointed are you that Britain has got | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
When people like you and the country voted to leave? | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
Slip into this reptile shop, and here too there were not many | :22:05. | :22:14. | |
The majority seemed to want to get out. | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
But I do not really think the government | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
But in Poppins cafe, we did find Leave voters who trust | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
Do you think Britain should have gone with a pro-Leave | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Prime Ministser in wake of the referendum vote? | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
I think that would have been probably correct to do so, | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
but now we have got this lady, we have got to try and support her. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
Theresa May may have some support among the Leavers, | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
but on one afternoon in one town, there's of evidence our | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
new Prime Minister has a job to do convincing winners of the referendum | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Gosport. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
In a moment I'll be speaking to Laura Kuenssberg. | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
But first our Europe Editor Katya Adler is in Brussels. | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
How has the news gone down in Europe that they will be dealing | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
with Theresa May when it comes to the Brexit negotiations? | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
First of all a big sigh of relief here in Brussels that things now | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
appear to be moving forward in the UK. Uncertainty is bad for an | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
already weak EU and its wobbly currency. The feeling here is if the | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
UK is going to exit the EU it should get on with the formal process of | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
leaving. Here in Brussels, in Germany and France, leaders were | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
reluctant to be drawn into detail about Theresa May until she actually | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
becomes the British Prime Minister. Privately they say they feel that | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
she is a known quantity, as British Home Secretary she was often in | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Brussels meeting with European counterparts. One high-level source | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
described her as a hard negotiator and an Italian newspaper likened her | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
to the tough German Chancellor Angela Merkel and said that she is | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
cold and competent and determined. Not the kind of person said another | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
source, who is likely to bow to considerable EU pressure to start | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
formal time negotiations with the EU about the UK leaving as soon as | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
possible. She will instead want to inform readers found out her | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
European counterparts beforehand to see what kind of deal the UK can | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
expect outside the EU. European Commission doesn't like the idea but | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
there's not much it do about it. Let's talk about the process between | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
now and Wednesday. When of course the removal vans arrived. | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
And given that Mrs May will be an unelected leader, | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
what are the chances of a general election? | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
That is a good question. David Cameron will have his last cabinet | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
tomorrow so Theresa May will come up this street for the last time as | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Home Secretary. He and his cabinet colleagues will have the final | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
meeting, you can only imagine whether anything will get done. Then | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
on Wednesday he goes again to the dispatch box for Prime Minister's | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
Questions for the last time and straight after that offer up the | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
road to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation formally to the | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
Queen and after that Theresa May makes the same journey to go and | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
accept the job. Sober looking at late Wednesday afternoon, Theresa | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
May will walk into Downing Street for the first time officially as | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Prime Minister. In terms of the question of a general election, | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
Theresa May was firm when she launched her campaign are given the | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Conservatives were elected just over a year ago, she believes there does | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
not have to be an election for her to take over as Prime Minister. But | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
already both the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats have basically | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
said that is not democratic. We as the general public have not voted | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
for her and without a contest even amongst Tory party members it may | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
be, I say it may be, but there is a growing demand for her to go to the | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
country. But that is not her intention was up and I think the | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
decision will be based on how smoothly things go. I think knowing | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
the character of Theresa May, she can avoid it and will want to | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
introduce a calm period of government while those tricky | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
negotiations get underway. Thank you. Downing Street is full of | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
reporters and it has been threatening to rain this afternoon. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Let's see what the weather has been doing across the rest of the | :26:25. | :26:25. | |
country. It has been sunny one minute and | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
pouring with rain the next. This shot was taken by one of our | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
Weather Watchers in Lincolnshire. For some of us we had torrential | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
downpours across the South East of England. Not far from the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Farnborough airshow which was badly disrupted. Many other places | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
enjoying a fine and to the day. The showers tend to ease away with time | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
but then we have another clutch pushing into Wales later on. Most of | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
us end the night dry and fresh as well. If you are in rural areas, | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
down to single figures. So some sunshine first thing in the morning, | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
showers already across parts of Wales tracking further east. By and | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
large the further north and west you are in the country, the better | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
chance of staying dry. Plenty of sunshine in Northern Ireland and | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
parts of Scotland. Out of the breeze not feeling too bad. After a shower | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
restart across parts of Wales, things perk up as the focus of the | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
downpours tracks towards East Anglia and the South East. Some slow-moving | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
and heavy downpours, warnings could be issued by the time we reached | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
tomorrow. On Wednesday the showers drift away some more showers coming | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
in from the north and west. Another hit and miss date with some places | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
having heavy showers and others staying dry. But again not all that | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
warm. Mid to high teens. And overnight this week it turns cold in | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
rural areas, down into single figures. But in the sunshine not | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
feeling too bad and Thursday looking like a decent day for most. The wind | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
fairly light and some good stuff of sunshine. How long that lasts is | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
another matter. Here in Downing Street as has been | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
an incredibly fast moving day with news that Theresa May will be the | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
new Prime Minister, she will be moving in here on Wednesday when | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
David Cameron will resign. With the last hour Theresa May said should | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
she was honoured and humbled to have been chosen. | :28:44. | :28:44. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye | :28:45. | :28:48. |