:00:00. > :00:00.Tonight at Ten: We're in Downing Street -
:00:00. > :00:08.where in two days' time - Theresa May will be installed
:00:09. > :00:15.She became Conservative leader today, after her only rival
:00:16. > :00:18.for the job had withdrawn from the race.
:00:19. > :00:21.We are going to give people more control over their lives,
:00:22. > :00:29.and that is how, together, we will build a better Britain.
:00:30. > :00:31.The turning point had come at midday when Andrea Leadsom
:00:32. > :00:42.shocked Westminster by pulling out of the race.
:00:43. > :00:48.interests of our country are best served by the immediate appointment
:00:49. > :00:49.of a strong, well supported Prime Minister.
:00:50. > :00:51.And in Downing Street - David Cameron confirmed
:00:52. > :00:54.that he would be out of power within a few days.
:00:55. > :00:56.I am also delighted that Theresa May
:00:57. > :01:00.She's strong, she is competent, she is more than able
:01:01. > :01:11.to provide the leadership that our country is going to need.
:01:12. > :01:16.Conservative Party members have been giving their reaction to being
:01:17. > :01:26.deprived of a leadership contest. Gold -- some members will feel
:01:27. > :01:32.cheated and will feel Andrea has thrown the Tao Lin too quickly.
:01:33. > :01:36.And - as one leaders' race ended - another began, as Angela Eagle
:01:37. > :01:37.challenged Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.
:01:38. > :01:40.And coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News:
:01:41. > :01:43.Another blow for the Olympics golf tournament - Jordan Spieth
:01:44. > :01:45.the latest high profile player to withdraw because of fears
:01:46. > :02:06.Good evening from Downing Street, where in two days' time Theresa May
:02:07. > :02:08.will be installed as Britain's new Prime Minister.
:02:09. > :02:11.The news followed a decision by Andrea Leadsom to withdraw
:02:12. > :02:13.from the race for Conservative leader, saying she didn't have
:02:14. > :02:17.enough support to form a stable government.
:02:18. > :02:21.Mrs May will take over from David Cameron on Wednesday -
:02:22. > :02:25.and she's already underlined that for her "Brexit means Brexit",
:02:26. > :02:27.and she'll be working to get the best deal for Britain
:02:28. > :02:31.We'll be looking in more detail at Mrs May's political outlook
:02:32. > :02:33.and asking what kind of Prime Minister
:02:34. > :02:36.But first our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports
:02:37. > :02:42.on another day of unexpected turns at Westminster.
:02:43. > :02:47.Our next Prime Minister, the Tories' new leader.
:02:48. > :02:49.I am honoured and humbled to have been chosen
:02:50. > :02:54.by the Conservative Party to become its leader.
:02:55. > :02:56.I would like to pay tribute to the other candidates during
:02:57. > :02:59.the election campaign, and I would like to pay tribute
:03:00. > :03:03.to Andrea Leadsom for the dignity she has shown today.
:03:04. > :03:06.After the anger and arguments of the referendum campaign
:03:07. > :03:10.and its brutal aftermath, even to make her party work
:03:11. > :03:20.Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a success of it.
:03:21. > :03:24.Second, we need to unite our country, and third, we need a strong
:03:25. > :03:28.new positive vision for the future of our country.
:03:29. > :03:31.A vision of a country that works, not for the privileged few,
:03:32. > :03:35.but that works for every one of us, because we are going to give people
:03:36. > :03:39.more control over their lives, and that is how, together,
:03:40. > :03:50.This private politician will take the biggest job in public life.
:03:51. > :03:53.Without a vote even by her party's members,
:03:54. > :04:00.Teresa May's in, because she walked out.
:04:01. > :04:05.Just before 11 this morning, the rumour mill began to whirl.
:04:06. > :04:09.Was Andrea Ledson, the Eurosceptics' darling, about to quit?
:04:10. > :04:13.The grim faces of her supporters confirmed it.
:04:14. > :04:17.For me personally, to have won the support of 84 of my colleagues
:04:18. > :04:20.last Thursday, was a great expression of confidence,
:04:21. > :04:29.Nevertheless, this is less than 25% of the
:04:30. > :04:32.parliamentary party, and after careful consideration, I do not
:04:33. > :04:37.believe this is sufficient support to lead a strong and stable
:04:38. > :04:42.government, should I win the leadership election.
:04:43. > :04:47.I have, however, concluded, that the interests of our country,
:04:48. > :04:51.are best served by the immediate appointment of a strong and
:04:52. > :04:58.I am therefore withdrawing from the leadership election and I wish
:04:59. > :05:03.Theresa May the very greatest success.
:05:04. > :05:05.Why have you changed your mind, Mrs Leadsom?
:05:06. > :05:08.There was disbelief in Westminster's one of Westminster's
:05:09. > :05:19.About what they call the abuse that was thrown at her,
:05:20. > :05:22.especially after she suggested in an interview, that she
:05:23. > :05:25.would be a good Prime Minister, partly because she has children,
:05:26. > :05:34.One of her team told me simply the abuse was too much.
:05:35. > :05:37.With 199 MP supporting Theresa May, we think it is in the
:05:38. > :05:40.best interests of the country to say now we should withdraw.
:05:41. > :05:44.That's what it sounds like you are suggesting?
:05:45. > :05:46.I would not want to put it in those terms.
:05:47. > :05:49.I think the reality is that we faced very sophisticated opponents
:05:50. > :05:56.They very carefully positioned her as
:05:57. > :05:59.something which she is not and now, if we were to continue,
:06:00. > :06:03.The level of personal abuse that was being directed at her
:06:04. > :06:05.over the past week, and in the last few days,
:06:06. > :06:08.has been something which I have been rather appalled about.
:06:09. > :06:09.Even if Mrs May was the overwhelming favourite,
:06:10. > :06:12.we should have had a contest and so I am disappointed.
:06:13. > :06:15.I'm sure Andrea has made this decision for very good reasons,
:06:16. > :06:17.patriotic reasons, uniting the party, although sort of things,
:06:18. > :06:20.but I cannot help deny that I am disappointed.
:06:21. > :06:26.Andrea Leadsom's surprise decision to move out of the leadership race
:06:27. > :06:28.means in the next couple of days the new Prime Minister
:06:29. > :06:37.Next stop, after this melee, over to the Tory party machine
:06:38. > :06:39.to decide what happens to the government next,
:06:40. > :06:45.Following the decision of Mrs Andrew Leadsom to withdraw
:06:46. > :06:49.from the leadership contest, the Right Honourable
:06:50. > :06:51.Mrs Theresa May is the only remaining candidate.
:06:52. > :06:54.Could Theresa May be Prime Minister by the end of this week?
:06:55. > :06:56.We will conclude our internal process.
:06:57. > :06:59.There is also a constitutional process to be gone through.
:07:00. > :07:05.In the space of less than half an hour,
:07:06. > :07:07.Andrea Leadsom has quit the race and the Tory party
:07:08. > :07:10.have confirmed Theresa May will be the next Prime Minister.
:07:11. > :07:13.Are you looking then at the faces of some of Theresa May's new cabinet?
:07:14. > :07:16.Tory MPs who had given overwhelming support and were
:07:17. > :07:20.ready for a long campaign for Number Ten, but they don't need it now.
:07:21. > :07:23.He will not spend a moment longer than is polite
:07:24. > :07:27.in Downing Street, before leaving for the final time.
:07:28. > :07:29.With these changes, we now don't need to
:07:30. > :07:32.have a long period of transition, and so tomorrow,
:07:33. > :07:35.I will chair my last Cabinet meeting.
:07:36. > :07:37.On Wednesday, I will attend the House of Commons
:07:38. > :07:42.and then after that, I expect to go to the Palace
:07:43. > :07:44.and offer my resignation, so we will have a new
:07:45. > :07:47.Prime Minister in that building behind me by Wednesday evening.
:07:48. > :07:56.To lose office must be painful, but perhaps
:07:57. > :08:01.A hum, a tune from the Prime Minister.
:08:02. > :08:10.Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
:08:11. > :08:12.Earlier this morning, Theresa May had been in Birmingham,
:08:13. > :08:15.launching her campaign to be the next Conservative leader,
:08:16. > :08:18.promising to lead a government working "not for the privileged few,
:08:19. > :08:23.Mrs May played a relatively low-key role in the Remain campaign
:08:24. > :08:28.She also sparked controversy by saying she could not guarantee
:08:29. > :08:31.that EU citizens living in the UK would be allowed to stay.
:08:32. > :08:33.Our deputy political editor John Pienaar reports
:08:34. > :08:43.Just moments before she knew the job was hers,
:08:44. > :08:50.She doesn't do showy, thinks Britain has had enough surprises,
:08:51. > :09:04.rich and poor, north and south, urban and rural, young and old,
:09:05. > :09:07.male and female, black and white, sick and healthy, public sector,
:09:08. > :09:09.private sector, those with skills and those without.
:09:10. > :09:13.It was a pitch to be a one nation Prime Minister,
:09:14. > :09:32.Her reputation for toughness was already established.
:09:33. > :09:35.Many Tories hated it when she told them, in opposition, the wider
:09:36. > :09:39.Our base is too narrow and so, occasionally, are our sympathies.
:09:40. > :09:44.A police conference liked her even less when, as Home Secretary,
:09:45. > :09:55.The murder of Lee Rigby by Islamist extremists shocked the country but
:09:56. > :10:02.she deported the extremist preacher Abu Qatada was for her a moment of
:10:03. > :10:07.triumph. Theresa May never liked David Cameron's pledge to get net
:10:08. > :10:12.immigration below 100,000, but some thought her too tough in getting
:10:13. > :10:17.numbers down when colleges and businesses wanted more. I have sat
:10:18. > :10:21.around the Cabinet table with her for six years, and she has got the
:10:22. > :10:25.integrity, strength and leadership our country needs. In Britain and
:10:26. > :10:29.around the world, the British economy needs certainty, so I think
:10:30. > :10:34.it is in everyone's position that she takes up her Prime -- position
:10:35. > :10:40.as Prime Minister in the coming days. She is coming into power at a
:10:41. > :10:45.more testing time than any since the Second World War, and her mission of
:10:46. > :10:50.making the party appeal to people and places it has failed to reach in
:10:51. > :10:54.decades, could easily fail. Tonight, the party will rally around but in
:10:55. > :10:57.the coming months and years, the harsh realities of government can
:10:58. > :11:02.only compare harshly of the dreams of leadership that she nursed with
:11:03. > :11:06.her future husband at her side as a young woman.
:11:07. > :11:08.Theresa May - who's 59 - was born in Eastbourne.
:11:09. > :11:10.She entered parliament for Maidenhead in Berkshire
:11:11. > :11:13.in 1997 - and she's been at the Home Office since 2010 -
:11:14. > :11:14.the second-longest-serving Home Secretary since
:11:15. > :11:19.Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth looks at her life,
:11:20. > :11:26.Theresa May - who's 59 - was born in Eastbourne.
:11:27. > :11:28.Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth looks at her life,
:11:29. > :11:31.before and after she came to Westminster.
:11:32. > :11:38.Theresa May has long been tipped as a potential Prime Minister. A
:11:39. > :11:42.vicar's daughter from a middle-class family, she went to state school
:11:43. > :11:47.before studying geography at Oxford University, where she met her future
:11:48. > :11:52.husband Philip. She called him her rock when her father died in a car
:11:53. > :11:56.crash and her mother of multiple sclerosis a few months later.
:11:57. > :12:11.Politics was a long-held ambition. After working at the Bank of
:12:12. > :12:13.England, she made it to Westminster, elected as Maidenhead's MP in 1997.
:12:14. > :12:16.Her local party are still proud of the choice. We interviewed her and I
:12:17. > :12:20.thought, yes. Down-to-earth, speaks her mind and listens to you. She
:12:21. > :12:31.just had the right attitude. Thought of as smart, tough, shrewd, Theresa
:12:32. > :12:36.May rose through the Tory ranks. A a woman at the upper echelons who
:12:37. > :12:42.never felt her gender caused barriers. Known for keeping her own
:12:43. > :12:46.counsel, not schmoozing Westminster's tearooms, some have
:12:47. > :12:50.called Theresa May cold and aloof, but she commands respect from
:12:51. > :12:54.colleagues who work alongside her. What was different in the Home
:12:55. > :12:58.Office was she was adored. It would not be too much to say she was
:12:59. > :13:03.loved. She is a brilliant leader. She changes her mind when the facts
:13:04. > :13:12.change, but once she sets her mind on a course which is right, she will
:13:13. > :13:15.not divert. Even being diagnosed with diabetes did not then to her
:13:16. > :13:21.stride but the kitten heels once did. Some have described Theresa May
:13:22. > :13:27.as difficult. Identity I have a ruthless streak. I just want to get
:13:28. > :13:31.on and do the best I can. That is something my parents very much
:13:32. > :13:36.brought me up to believe him, that whatever you are doing, try your
:13:37. > :13:42.hardest, do your best. As of today, her best will be required. In her
:13:43. > :13:45.own words, Mrs May is one to get on with the job. Now she has to prove
:13:46. > :13:58.she has the metal for the biggest job of all. Here in Downing Street I
:13:59. > :14:05.am joined by our political editor Laura Kuenssberg and our economics
:14:06. > :14:08.editor Kamal Ahmed. We said this referendum campaign has shaken
:14:09. > :14:13.everything up. All the pieces have been shaken up in the air. Now we
:14:14. > :14:17.know where they are going to land, for the Conservative Party at least.
:14:18. > :14:22.A senior Tory said if Jeffrey Archer had gone to his publisher with the
:14:23. > :14:30.plot of what has happened today, he would be sent packing, no one could
:14:31. > :14:32.believe such a story. And yet, that is what has happened. Andrea
:14:33. > :14:36.Leadsom's decision jackknifed the Tory contest, which we expected to
:14:37. > :14:41.happen over a couple of months. The whole thing has gone at 1 million
:14:42. > :14:48.mph, and now, instead of the middle of September, by Wednesday night,
:14:49. > :14:52.someone else will be in charge there, and a very different kind of
:14:53. > :14:55.politician and Prime Minister to boot. Theresa May is not a flash
:14:56. > :14:59.politician. She is all about showing she is calm and sober and takes time
:15:00. > :15:05.to work things through. I think there is one difference, politicians
:15:06. > :15:10.for a long time have tried to look as if they are the public's friend,
:15:11. > :15:14.the kind of person you could have a pint and a chat with. That is not
:15:15. > :15:19.Theresa May's style and I think that alone will give things a very
:15:20. > :15:22.different feel around here. Indeed. A very different style, but what
:15:23. > :15:37.about policy? Are we She actually laid out some quite
:15:38. > :15:43.interesting and factually detailed policy today, quite radical. She
:15:44. > :15:48.spoke about understanding that growth had seemed to be for the
:15:49. > :15:51.privileged few, hadn't been for the ordinary person industry despite
:15:52. > :15:55.them working as hard as they could. She said that she'd wanted to see
:15:56. > :15:58.things like workers representatives on business boards. She said that
:15:59. > :16:04.she wanted to see shareholders being much more tough on remuneration for
:16:05. > :16:08.Chief Executive 's. She also said she wanted to see Chief Executive 's
:16:09. > :16:13.paid published and then compared to the pay of average workers in that
:16:14. > :16:18.business. Now some people might say, hang on a minute, I sort of
:16:19. > :16:23.recognise this language, and they'd be right. 2011, Ed Miliband, Labour
:16:24. > :16:28.Party conference, said that business needed to reform. He said he wasn't
:16:29. > :16:34.being anti-business but he was being anti-business as usual. Theresa May
:16:35. > :16:38.might use a lot of the same language today because she wants a very big
:16:39. > :16:44.tent in the centre of British politics. And she's set herself a
:16:45. > :16:47.rather hefty economic challenge. The test won't simply be, she seems to
:16:48. > :16:52.be saying, whether or not the economy grows or doesn't, but if it
:16:53. > :16:55.grows it's got to grow for everybody. Everybody has to feel the
:16:56. > :17:01.advantage of any economic growth that comes post-referendum. Thanks
:17:02. > :17:03.very much for now, Laura we will talk again later.
:17:04. > :17:05.The decision on who should lead the Conservative Party
:17:06. > :17:07.was meant to be taken - not by Conservative MPs -
:17:08. > :17:10.but by the party's 150,000 members in a ballot to be held
:17:11. > :17:17.But Mrs Leadsom's decision to leave the race means that party members
:17:18. > :17:20.will not have a formal say, so our correspondent Danny Savage
:17:21. > :17:22.has been asking activists in Harrogate for their views
:17:23. > :17:26.North Yorkshire - England's largest county
:17:27. > :17:33.With only one hat left in the ring for Tory leader,
:17:34. > :17:40.what do party members think of not having a vote in the matter?
:17:41. > :17:45.These are three of about 150,000 who would have had a say.
:17:46. > :17:47.Do you think Conservative members will be disappointed that they don't
:17:48. > :17:49.have a chance to vote on the next leader?
:17:50. > :17:52.I think some members of the party will feel a bit cheated
:17:53. > :17:54.and will feel that Andrea has thrown the towel
:17:55. > :18:05.It's important that we have a Prime Minister going ahead that supported
:18:06. > :18:14.I would have voted for Theresa anyway had it come
:18:15. > :18:19.I think the news that Andrea has pulled out today means that we can
:18:20. > :18:22.install Theresa as our leader and Prime Minister in a much shorter
:18:23. > :18:25.time period and I think that is very good for the country.
:18:26. > :18:28.Is there some disappointment at grassroots level that people
:18:29. > :18:31.in the party will not get a vote on this matter?
:18:32. > :18:36.I would have liked to have had a vote, but I think you put
:18:37. > :18:38.the country first and the party first.
:18:39. > :18:41.I think it is in the interests of the country, of everyone, that we
:18:42. > :18:46.But what do the Tory faithful think about the party's new
:18:47. > :18:54.Do you think she can unite the party?
:18:55. > :19:04.She is a very experienced lady in government.
:19:05. > :19:09.I know that she has said that she is going to operate the Brexit ASAP.
:19:10. > :19:13.I think it is going to be incredibly difficult for somebody who believed
:19:14. > :19:19.I am not quite sure how it is all going to work.
:19:20. > :19:22.So, no great discontent in the broad acres of Yorkshire over
:19:23. > :19:24.the new Conservative leader, but that does not mean
:19:25. > :19:33.As we heard - Theresa May was on the Remain side
:19:34. > :19:36.in the referendum debate - though she didn't play
:19:37. > :19:38.a very prominent part - but she now faces the task
:19:39. > :19:43.of negotiating the UK's departure from the European Union.
:19:44. > :19:47.She's insisted that "Brexit means Brexit" - but has that convinced
:19:48. > :19:50.Leave voters that she's going to deliver what they want?
:19:51. > :19:53.Our special correspondent Ed Thomas reports from Great Yarmouth,
:19:54. > :19:56.which voted 70% in favour of Leaving.
:19:57. > :20:01.A new journey begins, but is everyone on board?
:20:02. > :20:05.Like many seaside towns, Great Yarmouth voted
:20:06. > :20:16.So what do people think about Theresa May as their
:20:17. > :20:19.I'm a bit apprehensive of what might happen.
:20:20. > :20:25.Well it should do, because that's what the democratic vote of the
:20:26. > :20:30.I think the opposition, what was her name?
:20:31. > :20:34.She would have been better, because she was an
:20:35. > :20:39.Change is happening quickly and some here are unsure what
:20:40. > :20:46.We all voted out and it would be a worry if we was to be
:20:47. > :20:50.I think that might cause some aggro, to be honest.
:20:51. > :20:52.Theresa May has said Brexit means Brexit to her.
:20:53. > :21:00.I'm not sure whether she'll be able to be
:21:01. > :21:05.But she has said to her Brexit means Brexit.
:21:06. > :21:15.But there are other voices here like Janet and Joyce.
:21:16. > :21:18.They voted Leave and believe Theresa May can mend
:21:19. > :21:27.I think you've got to try and get it to appeal to everybody, as a unity,
:21:28. > :21:30.And that's what Theresa May represents to you?
:21:31. > :21:32.Yes she does, yes, and I hope it will happen.
:21:33. > :21:34.I'm hoping she will bring us all
:21:35. > :21:38.together and do the best job that she possibly can.
:21:39. > :21:40.People here, like elsewhere, had no say in choosing
:21:41. > :21:45.But speak to those who voted to leave the
:21:46. > :21:51.European Union and many demand that their voices are heard.
:21:52. > :21:54.And maybe the toughest audience of all, Ukip
:21:55. > :21:58.supporters like Paul, Donna and John.
:21:59. > :22:00.Is the Ukip faithful happy with Theresa May as Prime Minister?
:22:01. > :22:05.If she can invoke article 50 straightaway and get us a really
:22:06. > :22:08.good deal coming out of Europe then I think everyone will be happy.
:22:09. > :22:13.Well, she's not delivered at all regarding immigration, and what sort
:22:14. > :22:17.of deal will she get us with regards to that with the EU?
:22:18. > :22:20.Now we need to forget about Remain and Leave and
:22:21. > :22:24.all concentrate on making Great Britain,
:22:25. > :22:26.all of us what we need to
:22:27. > :22:32.Theresa May will lead, shaping a nation and its
:22:33. > :22:46.Let's talk about reaction in other parts of the European Union.
:22:47. > :22:48.In Germany, Chancellor Merkel has urged Britain to move quickly,
:22:49. > :22:50.to explain how it wants to shape its future relationship
:22:51. > :22:54.She said Germany wanted the UK to remain an important partner.
:22:55. > :22:57.Let's talk to our Europe editor Katya Adler in Brussels.
:22:58. > :23:07.What's been the reaction there? The main response has been to watch, to
:23:08. > :23:10.wait and only then to react. Our high-level EU source centimetre
:23:11. > :23:18.night that they will react when Theresa May actually does something
:23:19. > :23:23.-- said to me to night. Until now the EU has stood by watching the
:23:24. > :23:28.chaos in the UK. Theresa May says she will respect the referendum
:23:29. > :23:32.result. You mentioned Angela Merkel. EU leaders are anxious to know what
:23:33. > :23:36.kind of relationship the UK once in the future with the EU. Does Theresa
:23:37. > :23:41.May for example want full access to the European single market? If so
:23:42. > :23:45.Angela Merkel insists, as do other European leaders, that means the UK
:23:46. > :23:50.accepting the free movement of people. That means access for all EU
:23:51. > :23:55.citizens to the UK labour market. Theresa May is known here in muscles
:23:56. > :24:00.as something of an immigration hardliner, but EU sources have also
:24:01. > :24:06.described her as a tough negotiator and also a pragmatist. It is
:24:07. > :24:10.recognise that she will probably, before she formally starts Brexit
:24:11. > :24:14.talks, will want to talk to European counterparts perhaps with a tour of
:24:15. > :24:19.European capitals. The European Commission does not like the idea of
:24:20. > :24:23.informal chats, but it cannot do much about it. It takes comfort from
:24:24. > :24:26.the EU conviction that once the formal talks start the EU will be in
:24:27. > :24:30.the driving seat. As the Conservative leadership
:24:31. > :24:35.race came to an abrupt Labour MPs were witnessing the start
:24:36. > :24:39.of their own leadership challenge. Angela Eagle, the former
:24:40. > :24:41.Shadow Business Secretary, formally launched her attempt
:24:42. > :24:43.to unseat the Labour leader Jeremy She said her goals were to save
:24:44. > :24:48.the Labour party and heal Britain. Mr Corbyn has said he'll fight any
:24:49. > :24:50.challenge, as our political Are you prepared for
:24:51. > :24:59.a leadership challenge? with Jeremy Corbyn to go,
:25:00. > :25:03.they have resigned from his team in droves, but persuasion has failed
:25:04. > :25:07.and a leadership challenge is on. And this is the Labour MP
:25:08. > :25:12.leading the charge. I have lodged my papers
:25:13. > :25:15.with the general secretary today Angela Eagle had been threatening
:25:16. > :25:20.a challenge for days but with the country in political
:25:21. > :25:23.turmoil she said Labour could not put up with weak
:25:24. > :25:25.leadership any longer. We know that to be leader
:25:26. > :25:28.of the Labour Party you have And we've seen Jeremy
:25:29. > :25:34.not do that job. He's been hiding behind a door,
:25:35. > :25:36.not talking to his She has the support of many
:25:37. > :25:43.party stalwarts longing for a change of leadership,
:25:44. > :25:46.but Angela Eagle promised to be I'm not a Blairite, I'm not
:25:47. > :25:53.a Brownite, and I'm The former Shadow Business Secretary
:25:54. > :26:04.has been a Labour MP since 1992 and has a twin sister,
:26:05. > :26:11.Maria, also a member of Parliament. It's not clear whether Jeremy Corbyn
:26:12. > :26:14.will be able to stand Labour's ruling body will decide
:26:15. > :26:17.tomorrow if he needs nominations from MPs and MEPs to get
:26:18. > :26:20.on the ballot, or if he has And powerful trade union figures
:26:21. > :26:23.are standing firm Today Len McCluskey denounced
:26:24. > :26:26.what he called a political lynching. Perpetrated on a decent
:26:27. > :26:38.man, a kind man. A man who has a complete mandate,
:26:39. > :26:40.a massive mandate from Jeremy Corbyn has lost
:26:41. > :26:46.the confidence of most Labour MPs. They think he is an electoral
:26:47. > :26:50.disaster and want him gone. But Mr Corbyn is banking
:26:51. > :26:52.on the backing of Labour Party members and paid-up supporters
:26:53. > :26:55.to elect him again. And it's that split that has thrown
:26:56. > :27:00.the party into crisis. Labour membership numbers continue
:27:01. > :27:07.to grow with some websites trying to sign up people who want
:27:08. > :27:10.Jeremy Corbyn out and others trying And the field of
:27:11. > :27:14.contenders could grow. The former Shadow Work
:27:15. > :27:16.and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith Labour's ongoing agonies are a stark
:27:17. > :27:21.contrast to the Conservatives brutal The end of one leadership race today
:27:22. > :27:37.and the start of another. We'll be back a little
:27:38. > :27:39.later in Downing Street - The Chief of Police in Dallas has
:27:40. > :27:45.defended the decision to kill the main suspect in the murder
:27:46. > :27:49.of five officers by using a bomb, David Brown said it wasn't
:27:50. > :27:52.an ethical dilemma for him, considering
:27:53. > :27:55.what Micah Johnson had done. The events in Dallas -
:27:56. > :28:07.as well as the killings of African American men
:28:08. > :28:09.by police officers - There are demonstrations
:28:10. > :28:13.across the country every day - and fears of increased activity
:28:14. > :28:15.by black militant groups. Our correspondent Nick Bryant
:28:16. > :28:16.assesses the mood. The riot police have
:28:17. > :28:18.state-of-the-art equipment. These snapshots are now rendered
:28:19. > :28:21.in colour, not black and white. But the scenes we've witnessed
:28:22. > :28:24.in America over the past few days recall some of the racial
:28:25. > :28:28.turbulence of the 60s, albeit on a smaller,
:28:29. > :28:36.less epic scale. What sparked this fury is not just
:28:37. > :28:39.a spate of police shootings of black men, but the fact that they've
:28:40. > :28:42.been caught on camera He or she can document
:28:43. > :28:49.what he or she sees to tell the world: "You think
:28:50. > :28:51.we've been lying? "You think we've
:28:52. > :28:54.been making this up? "You think this is a myth?
:28:55. > :29:00.This is empirical, this is fact." Now we capture it on a smartphone,
:29:01. > :29:02.it has changed the landscape Determined to highlight
:29:03. > :29:09.every police killing, What started out as a hashtag
:29:10. > :29:17.on social media is now Here its supporters clashed
:29:18. > :29:23.with police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where a black man
:29:24. > :29:26.was killed by officers last week. But the flowers that adorn this
:29:27. > :29:31.squad car in Dallas show how the slaughter of five officers
:29:32. > :29:34.in the city has generated a wave of public sympathy for the police,
:29:35. > :29:37.not least because their actions Several of them lined
:29:38. > :29:46.against a wall over there, I saw another officer get shot right
:29:47. > :29:55.there in front of me again, The Martin Luther King Memorial
:29:56. > :30:04.in Washington stands as testament to the landmark reforms of the civil
:30:05. > :30:07.rights era, the end of segregation. But the struggle for black
:30:08. > :30:09.equality is far from over. It's always been difficult
:30:10. > :30:13.to legislate problem areas like policing where the actions
:30:14. > :30:17.of a single officer can spark such In the midst of this turmoil
:30:18. > :30:25.Barack Obama will head to Dallas. But gone are the days when people
:30:26. > :30:29.here thought that the country's first African-American president
:30:30. > :30:35.could bridge its racial divide. Nick Bryant, BBC News,
:30:36. > :30:39.Washington. A brief look at some
:30:40. > :30:43.of the day's other news stories. Two Turkish men have been found
:30:44. > :30:48.guilty of smuggling cocaine with a street value estimated
:30:49. > :30:52.at half a billion pounds The vessel was intercepted
:30:53. > :30:57.by the Royal Navy and Britain's biggest train operator has
:30:58. > :31:00.axed hundreds of services Commuters protested
:31:01. > :31:05.at Victoria Station at the new timetable
:31:06. > :31:07.which will operate "for It was brought in to try to deal
:31:08. > :31:13.with high levels of staff sickness - and industrial action
:31:14. > :31:16.by the RMT union. A wrecked car in which a man died
:31:17. > :31:20.when he was hit by a speeding driver was put outside parliament today
:31:21. > :31:24.as part of a campaign Joseph Brown-Lartey died
:31:25. > :31:30.when his car was struck by another - doing more than 80 miles an hour
:31:31. > :31:34.in a residential area. The driver - Addil Haroon -
:31:35. > :31:38.was jailed for eight years. The aeroplane maker Boeing
:31:39. > :31:42.is to double its UK workforce The government has ordered nine
:31:43. > :31:48.maritime patrol planes to help protect Trident nuclear weapons
:31:49. > :31:50.as part of a package After winning his second
:31:51. > :31:55.Wimbledon title yesterday - Andy Murray says he feels more
:31:56. > :31:58.motivated than at any other The British Number One
:31:59. > :32:01.said his focus would switch now to defending his Olympic
:32:02. > :32:04.title in Rio next month. This report from our
:32:05. > :32:10.Sports Correspondent Joe Wilson. A champion walks on Monday carrying
:32:11. > :32:16.the strains of a fortnight in his legs and the lightness
:32:17. > :32:18.of contentment in his heart. And somebody else can
:32:19. > :32:23.carry the trophy. Andy Murray said the Champions
:32:24. > :32:26.Dinner last night was fun with his wife, concedes he consumed
:32:27. > :32:28.more than a touch of alcohol. After all, the second Wimbledon
:32:29. > :32:31.success is there to be savoured After he won here in 2013,
:32:32. > :32:35.Murray says he couldn't really see Well, his record in Grand Slam
:32:36. > :32:40.finals now reads played 11, Sort of losing actually in a lot
:32:41. > :32:49.of the finals motivated me. I lost the first two finals this
:32:50. > :32:53.year, I lost in the Australian Open final the year before and that
:32:54. > :32:56.motivated me for sure. Obviously, becoming a father as well
:32:57. > :32:59.was extra motivation too. But could he become the number one
:33:00. > :33:06.ranked tennis player in the world? A position currently occupied
:33:07. > :33:08.by a chap called Novak Djokovic, who lost in the third
:33:09. > :33:14.round of Wimbledon this year. I would rather set the bar as high
:33:15. > :33:20.as possible and not quite achieve it than say,
:33:21. > :33:28.I'd be happy finishing at five in the world then
:33:29. > :33:30.finishing at three. It's better to try and finish one
:33:31. > :33:33.and finish at two, so yes, I would love to get
:33:34. > :33:35.to number one obviously. But I think a lot of people are sort
:33:36. > :33:39.of forgetting what Novak's done because he lost in the third
:33:40. > :33:42.round here, the last 18 months One of Murray's greatest
:33:43. > :33:48.achievements was to win the Davis Cup with his brother
:33:49. > :33:51.with Britain and the defence If too fatigued to play
:33:52. > :33:54.in Serbia, Murray says he'll With every trophy, he knows
:33:55. > :34:01.he carries greater responsibility. Now back to our main story tonight
:34:02. > :34:13.and Huw is in Downing Street. So now we know that Theresa May,
:34:14. > :34:16.the home secretary, will here arrive in Downing Street
:34:17. > :34:19.on Wednesday afternoon, having accepted the Queen's
:34:20. > :34:21.invitation to become prime minister But already there are questions
:34:22. > :34:26.in some quarters about Yes, she has the backing
:34:27. > :34:31.of most Conservative MPs, but she has no personal mandate
:34:32. > :34:34.from Conservative party members, nor indeed from tens of millions
:34:35. > :34:37.of Britain's voters. Our home editor Mark Easton
:34:38. > :34:52.explores how we got here, Future generations of schoolchildren
:34:53. > :34:57.will study Britain's cool summer of 2016 and no doubt be asked to
:34:58. > :35:03.explain what on earth happened. London Festival you want is used to
:35:04. > :35:07.politics as theatre, sometimes tragedy. For the last three weeks
:35:08. > :35:11.almost every day has felt like we were watching a history play.
:35:12. > :35:16.Theresa May, the centre of attention in another extraordinary week that
:35:17. > :35:22.will see one Tory PM move out and a new Tory PM moved in. So who voted
:35:23. > :35:26.for our Prime Minister in waiting people may ask? The answer is 35,000
:35:27. > :35:30.people in her Maidenhead constituency and around 200 Tory
:35:31. > :35:35.MPs. Interestingly when Gordon Brown took over as PM from Tony Blair won
:35:36. > :35:41.Theresa May accused him of not having a democratic mandate. Early
:35:42. > :35:47.election, she asked? Bring it on. Opponents may want Mrs May to bring
:35:48. > :35:50.on an early election herself. One former Cabinet minister told me
:35:51. > :35:55.today the fixed term Parliament act makes that impossible. But the
:35:56. > :35:59.architect of the legislation, former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg,
:36:00. > :36:02.says his law includes get out clauses for exceptional
:36:03. > :36:07.circumstances and the new PM must get a democratic mandate for
:36:08. > :36:10.post-Brexit Britain. You know have in effect a totally different
:36:11. > :36:13.government with different leaders with different priorities. Hurtling
:36:14. > :36:17.towards Brexit with absolutely no road map how to do that. I think
:36:18. > :36:22.it's essential that Theresa May does the decent thing to spell out what
:36:23. > :36:26.her plans are and to put that to the British people in an early general
:36:27. > :36:30.election. These are extraordinary times because the British people
:36:31. > :36:33.have ignored the advice of most of the political leaders, most of the
:36:34. > :36:37.members of parliament inside the Palace of Westminster. Some have
:36:38. > :36:39.described it as a popular insurgency. It is almost a
:36:40. > :36:47.revolution that will change our politics and our country forever. It
:36:48. > :36:49.was in effect a kind of peasants revolt of modern times. And the
:36:50. > :36:54.political class are still coming to terms with that. But they said they
:36:55. > :36:59.will come to terms with it. They have to accept the result. The
:37:00. > :37:04.people have spoken, as Theresa May herself has said, Brexit is Brexit.
:37:05. > :37:11.And negotiating Brexit will be top of Theresa May's injury. A new poll
:37:12. > :37:14.for BBC News says around three quarters of British adults don't
:37:15. > :37:20.trust politicians to carry out the will of the people. There appear to
:37:21. > :37:22.be contradictory expectations. Two thirds told pollsters access to the
:37:23. > :37:28.single market should be a priority, rather than cutting immigration. At
:37:29. > :37:34.the same time 52% said they expected immigration to fall. Politics is
:37:35. > :37:37.changing, history is being written. What is the new Prime Minister must
:37:38. > :37:39.realise, running the country isn't getting any easier.
:37:40. > :37:44.We're joined again by our political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
:37:45. > :37:50.You talked openly about the style and the fact this will be all about
:37:51. > :37:54.stability, it needs to be. And yet when you look at the items in the
:37:55. > :38:00.in- tray, they are all things that could cause instability. Absolutely.
:38:01. > :38:03.Even steady as she goes, keeping that illustrate why we go through an
:38:04. > :38:07.chartered waters would be a challenge for any politician, even
:38:08. > :38:13.Theresa May who has been around for a long time, in the Home Office for
:38:14. > :38:15.six years now. She's got to steer us through difficult tricky
:38:16. > :38:19.negotiations over how we leave the European Union. She will have to
:38:20. > :38:23.show to the general public some kind of progress on the Thomases of
:38:24. > :38:29.immigration. As Home Secretary she was charged with the policy for six
:38:30. > :38:33.years while the government tried and failed to get immigration down. So
:38:34. > :38:37.that is on her plate, too. Also how does she get together a plan to pay
:38:38. > :38:41.down the deficit, and look at economic stability in the months to
:38:42. > :38:44.come. So there are an awful lot of huge issues that steady as she go,
:38:45. > :38:49.carry on as things are, probably aren't going to cover. But she is
:38:50. > :38:53.somebody who is very much in that vein of don't rock the boat too
:38:54. > :38:57.much, don't change things too much. And today has come as a complete
:38:58. > :39:00.surprise to Theresa May, she thought she would have a couple of months to
:39:01. > :39:03.work this all out. She's going to have to be ready now to come
:39:04. > :39:08.straight out of the traps on Wednesday. Tomorrow is David
:39:09. > :39:12.Cameron's last full day in office. And just a thought on democratic
:39:13. > :39:15.legitimacy, will she be tempted to listen to some of those voices
:39:16. > :39:19.saying, you need to call an election? And demands from the
:39:20. > :39:24.Labour Party and also from the Lib Dems saying essentially she's been
:39:25. > :39:28.chosen by 199 Tory MPs, not Tory members, not least not by any of us.
:39:29. > :39:33.Through the short campaign Theresa May was clear there would not be an
:39:34. > :39:36.early general election. But if anything events, events, that is
:39:37. > :39:43.something we cannot rule out a night. Thanks very much.
:39:44. > :39:46.Newsnight is underway on BBC Two with more analysis and interviews
:39:47. > :39:49.about today's events here at Westminster.
:39:50. > :39:55.And the news that Theresa May, currently Home Secretary, will be
:39:56. > :39:56.here in two days' time to be installed as