The UK's New Prime Minister

:00:00. > :00:00.resignation and four Theresa May to arrive at Downing Street is new

:00:00. > :00:00.Prime Minister. Let's hang back to Westminster and June Edwards.

:00:00. > :00:00.a lot about that, about making the economy work for everybody - for

:00:00. > :00:12.those who that, about making the economy work

:00:13. > :00:15.for everybody. For those who don't have as much as others. How far she

:00:16. > :00:17.can go down that road is another matter because David Cameron said

:00:18. > :00:20.the same things when he came into power, he talked about the savings

:00:21. > :00:25.we have heard about from Theresa May but he had no money, no majority,

:00:26. > :00:29.because of the crash. Theresa May doesn't have a huge majority in the

:00:30. > :00:33.House of Commons so she may have been she wants to do but whether she

:00:34. > :00:37.will be able to achieve those not is another matter. This is just a few

:00:38. > :00:43.yards away from where we are now and there is the Prime Minister's card

:00:44. > :00:50.and the security vehicle. We're just waiting for the events to unfold. --

:00:51. > :00:56.the Prime Minister's Harb. The handover will be very efficient.

:00:57. > :01:01.Chris Grayling was the last talks have taken place over the last few

:01:02. > :01:04.days. As we look at the scenes just a thought on the sequence of events.

:01:05. > :01:09.Once she a thought on the sequence of events.

:01:10. > :01:15.through the door, once she crushes dumber crosses the threshold,

:01:16. > :01:18.greeted by the Cabinet Secretary. -- once she crosses the threshold.

:01:19. > :01:22.There will be a long line of staff to welcome the new Prime Minister,

:01:23. > :01:27.straight into the Cabinet room, and any serious briefing on security and

:01:28. > :01:31.other matters. That is the normal course of events, important

:01:32. > :01:34.decisions to be made about Cav appointments. The US spec them to

:01:35. > :01:40.come pretty quickly? She has not have long to think about it, but it

:01:41. > :01:44.will have occurred to her in the past few weeks, and she will want to

:01:45. > :01:49.get going. It happens so quickly, when it actually starts, she is

:01:50. > :01:53.given a security briefing, a lot of which she will know about because

:01:54. > :01:56.she has been Home Secretary. Long, but people talk about the moment

:01:57. > :02:03.when it is made clear that you are in charge of the nuclear weapons. --

:02:04. > :02:06.Paul so long. She will want people around her that she feels she can

:02:07. > :02:11.trust, we saw David Cameron's team who has been on every visit with

:02:12. > :02:15.him, and a new team will come in. She has to make all those decisions,

:02:16. > :02:22.there has been a lot of talk about who she may have as Chancellor in

:02:23. > :02:25.Number 11, not likely to be George Osborne, we don't think. She will

:02:26. > :02:33.have their views, and we don't know so much about her views on foreign

:02:34. > :02:39.affairs, because she has been in the Home Office. Sometimes this news

:02:40. > :02:43.leaks out, but it seems a pretty tight run operation. Yeah, and

:02:44. > :02:47.everyone has been saying, when they joined up to her campaign, which was

:02:48. > :02:51.going to be longer than it was, she did not offer them anything. I spoke

:02:52. > :02:55.to another minister who said, you have no idea, when you run to be

:02:56. > :02:58.leader, suddenly there is people knocking on your door that you have

:02:59. > :03:04.never heard of before, and they are asking for jobs. He said, he didn't

:03:05. > :03:09.want to do that, she has not done that. She will not be beholden to

:03:10. > :03:12.anybody, she will pick the people who she wants around her, and she

:03:13. > :03:18.knows them well, she knows what they are capable of. To some extent, I

:03:19. > :03:30.wonder whether the Cabinet two will be a bit in her mould. Of course,

:03:31. > :03:34.people in this position once people with similar opinions, but I wonder

:03:35. > :03:38.if they will be people who, like, we'll get on with the job. Not much

:03:39. > :03:44.leaking, and people have been over the road speaking to MPs, they are

:03:45. > :03:50.all guessing, but no-one knows apart from Theresa May. We will talk again

:03:51. > :03:54.in a while. Just to explain to those of you joining us, the form of

:03:55. > :03:58.events today, the formal process is well-established. The Prime Minister

:03:59. > :04:07.will even be ten, will make a statement. Actually, not all of them

:04:08. > :04:10.do, Tony Blair didn't. -- will leave Number Ten. He will make the Johnny

:04:11. > :04:17.to Buckingham Palace, and after the audience with the Queen, then Mrs

:04:18. > :04:21.May will go. -- he will make the journey. The only known is how long

:04:22. > :04:25.the audience with Mrs May will ask, Gordon Brown's first audience lasted

:04:26. > :04:30.nearly an hour, that is probably the longest we have none. Mr Blair's

:04:31. > :04:35.first audience, Mr Cameron's audience lasted half an hour. Then

:04:36. > :04:38.Mrs May will come back, and we are certainly expecting the new Prime

:04:39. > :04:45.Minister to address the British people in Downing Street and

:04:46. > :04:49.underline the priorities she has for her time in office, however long

:04:50. > :04:54.that lasts. Let's join Sophie Raworth at Buckingham Palace.

:04:55. > :04:58.It is getting busy here at Buckingham Palace, we are expecting

:04:59. > :05:02.it to get even busier in the next 45 minutes, when David Cameron arrives

:05:03. > :05:07.at around five o'clock this afternoon. With me here our royal

:05:08. > :05:10.biographer Hugo Vickers and Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at

:05:11. > :05:15.King's College London. Good afternoon to both of you. Hugo

:05:16. > :05:19.Vickers, explain what will happen when David Cameron arrives this

:05:20. > :05:25.afternoon. He will have that curious tribe up the Mall, he will go to the

:05:26. > :05:28.forecourt of the Palace, be met by the private secretary, quite a long

:05:29. > :05:33.walk to the Queen's private rooms, where she will receive him and he

:05:34. > :05:37.will design. She is an important part of the constitution, that is

:05:38. > :05:44.when he ceases to become Prime Minister. -- and he will resign. It

:05:45. > :05:46.is called the kissing of hands. That is for the new Prime Minister, some

:05:47. > :05:52.say that the lips brush the hands, but it is the way they put it,

:05:53. > :05:55.certainly. The relationship that the Queen will have with her new Prime

:05:56. > :05:59.Minister, the relationship with their past Prime Minister is,

:06:00. > :06:03.because Theresa May will be the 13th Prime Minister, how much do we know

:06:04. > :06:08.about it? The interesting thing is we only know anything about these

:06:09. > :06:11.relationships from the Prime Ministers themselves who

:06:12. > :06:16.occasionally let out a few things. So what's James Callaghan said is

:06:17. > :06:19.that the Queen offers friendliness, not necessarily friendship. She will

:06:20. > :06:23.be extremely supportive to the Prime Minister in any way she possibly

:06:24. > :06:28.can, she has a huge raft of experience, having reigned for 60

:06:29. > :06:30.years. Theresa May will be the third Prime Minister born within her

:06:31. > :06:36.reign. The first was Winston Churchill, born in 1874, so that was

:06:37. > :06:41.rather different. David Cameron, the first time she saw him, he was

:06:42. > :06:44.playing a rabbit in a school play! The interesting thing is, if she

:06:45. > :06:49.asks for formal advice, she is obliged to take it, and she will,

:06:50. > :06:53.but if she offers advice, he does not have to take it, but he would do

:06:54. > :06:57.well to listen because she has seen it all before. And it will all be

:06:58. > :07:02.over for David Cameron pretty quickly. He will be thinking of 2010

:07:03. > :07:05.when he drove in for the first time, and now suddenly it is all over, it

:07:06. > :07:11.must seem a very short period of time. For the Queen, over the course

:07:12. > :07:15.of 64 years, it is just another one coming along, full of ideas,

:07:16. > :07:22.enthusiasm, plans, questions. She perhaps will not know how much will

:07:23. > :07:26.be achieved. Vernon Bogdanor, Theresa May, second longest serving

:07:27. > :07:30.Home Secretary, well used to the workings of government, how much a

:07:31. > :07:34.step up will it be for her to leave the country? It is a huge change.

:07:35. > :07:38.The Home Office is traditionally thought of as the cemetery of

:07:39. > :07:43.political reputations. Before Theresa May, I think there were six

:07:44. > :07:48.different Home secretaries in 13 years, 13 years of Blair and Brown

:07:49. > :07:51.governments. But being Prime Minister is different, you are in

:07:52. > :07:55.command of such a huge range of issues, you cannot afford to be a

:07:56. > :07:58.control freak, you have to delegate, and all the difficult issues come to

:07:59. > :08:03.you, including ones she may not be familiar with, such as matters of

:08:04. > :08:07.dealing with the economy, which is quite central to politics, foreign

:08:08. > :08:17.affairs, the European Union. She has had some dealings with the European

:08:18. > :08:20.Union, but not really central to her work in the Home Office. And the

:08:21. > :08:22.important thing to remember is that every difficult issue comes to you

:08:23. > :08:25.to be resolved. If they were easiest use they would have been resolved

:08:26. > :08:30.before they get to you, so it is quite different job. We can look

:08:31. > :08:35.back in history at people who were quite good departmental ministers

:08:36. > :08:39.but not good Prime Ministers. Anthony Eden, an outstanding Foreign

:08:40. > :08:42.Secretary, not a good Prime Minister, and then Gordon Brown,

:08:43. > :08:47.outstanding Chancellor, ran into trouble is as Prime Minister.

:08:48. > :08:51.Converse be, you have ministers who are really not very good as

:08:52. > :08:54.departmental ministers, arguably Margaret Thatcher, a very ordinary

:08:55. > :08:58.Education Secretary, many would say an extremely good Prime Minister.

:08:59. > :09:04.You cannot tell how someone will perform until they are actually

:09:05. > :09:07.doing the job. David Cameron, you taught him, didn't you? He was one

:09:08. > :09:12.of your star pupils, the youngest Prime Minister for almost 200 years,

:09:13. > :09:20.and now the youngest for 110 years to leave, you must be disappointed

:09:21. > :09:24.to see your star pupil go so soon. Well, he will certainly be

:09:25. > :09:28.disappointed, because there is a lot of his agenda still to achieve. His

:09:29. > :09:33.main aim, I think, was to improve the life chances of the less

:09:34. > :09:35.fortunate, the so-called big society, to achieve an aspirational

:09:36. > :09:41.society in which you you were born to, or which school you went to,

:09:42. > :09:44.meant much less than it has hitherto, but he started on that

:09:45. > :09:49.programme, and of course it is not completed. But then as Enoch Powell

:09:50. > :09:53.so famously said, all political careers end in failure. It is

:09:54. > :09:57.particularly sad for him, having won a first overall Conservative

:09:58. > :10:03.majority for 23 years in the general election last year, one year later

:10:04. > :10:12.he is gone. What we'll is legacy be? Will it be as the Prime Minister who

:10:13. > :10:17.took us out of Europe? -- what will his. It will be to make the

:10:18. > :10:21.Conservatives an electable party, they have lost three elections in a

:10:22. > :10:25.row, which had not happened previously before the First World

:10:26. > :10:29.War. He turned the party around from being the nasty party, as Theresa

:10:30. > :10:33.May famously said, to being a party that could win power, then he helped

:10:34. > :10:37.restore the economy, and we are the strongest among the G8 from the

:10:38. > :10:42.difficulties that he inherited in 2010, and he began a programme of

:10:43. > :10:45.education and welfare reform. But perhaps his greatest achievement is

:10:46. > :10:50.to create good feeling, both in government and amongst the public.

:10:51. > :10:54.You did not have the Cabinet scribbles that mark the Blair and

:10:55. > :10:59.Brown years, and that was one of the reasons for the success of the

:11:00. > :11:02.coalition. -- squabbles. Do not think losing the referendum will

:11:03. > :11:09.overshadow that? I do not think that will define his premiership as Suez,

:11:10. > :11:14.for instance, defined Anthony Eden's premiership. There are many other

:11:15. > :11:18.achievements, and I think it will be seen in perspective, that the

:11:19. > :11:21.Cameron regime was a civilised and liberal, tolerant regime, which made

:11:22. > :11:27.many people in Britain feel more at ease with itself, although not

:11:28. > :11:32.enough in Arnautovic and as we saw in the referendum. And as we look

:11:33. > :11:35.forward to Theresa May as Prime Minister, the new relationship she

:11:36. > :11:38.will have to forge with the Queen, we know the Queen takes a huge

:11:39. > :11:45.interest in the political goings-on in Britain. She certainly does, and

:11:46. > :11:47.as I said before, she will be as supportive as she possibly can to

:11:48. > :11:53.Theresa May. I think there will probably get on rather well, Theresa

:11:54. > :11:55.May is cool, calm, intelligent, not particularly competitive, and I

:11:56. > :11:58.think she and the Queen will have good conversations together.

:11:59. > :12:02.Whatever Theresa May wants to tell the Queen, it will remain private,

:12:03. > :12:05.there is no body else in the room, they can talk about what ever they

:12:06. > :12:11.like. The Queen is about the only person with whom she can have those

:12:12. > :12:15.conversations. Hugo Vickers, Vernon Bogdanor, thank you very much. Back

:12:16. > :12:18.to you, Huw. Sophie, thanks be imagined to your

:12:19. > :12:25.guests. While Sophie was talking to the guests at Buckingham Palace, a

:12:26. > :12:27.letter published by Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council,

:12:28. > :12:33.such a significant figure now in the months head, given what Mrs May

:12:34. > :12:38.needs to be negotiating, dear Prime Minister, he says, not technically

:12:39. > :12:41.Prime Minister quite yet, dear Prime Minister, on behalf of the European

:12:42. > :12:45.Council, I would like to congratulate you on your appointment

:12:46. > :12:47.as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

:12:48. > :12:52.Northern Ireland. I look forward to a fruitful working relationship and

:12:53. > :12:57.to welcoming you to the European Council. So quite a short letter,

:12:58. > :13:03.but warm, formal but paying, obviously, paying attention to the

:13:04. > :13:07.courtesy and formality and saying, I look forward to a fruitful working

:13:08. > :13:10.relationship with you. We are in Downing Street, and we are expecting

:13:11. > :13:17.Mr Cameron to emerge from Number Ten quite shortly, and then we will have

:13:18. > :13:21.Mrs May coming here to take over as Prime Minister a little later on. It

:13:22. > :13:26.is worth underlining at this point that there is a lot of focus, of

:13:27. > :13:29.course, on what Mrs May has done so far in government. She has been in

:13:30. > :13:33.the Home Office for six years, and there has been a quite big focus,

:13:34. > :13:38.not least on the record on immigration, given that it took such

:13:39. > :13:42.a prominent part in the referendum campaign. My colleague Tom Symonds

:13:43. > :13:44.reports now on Mrs May's record in government and on what we can expect

:13:45. > :13:53.of her as Prime Minister. She might have thought

:13:54. > :13:55.she had the summer Thrust into power,

:13:56. > :13:59.the dreaded inbox awaits. Well, let's take a look

:14:00. > :14:02.at Theresa May's big leadership campaign speech,

:14:03. > :14:03.delivered just hours Top of the list - the B-word

:14:04. > :14:07.and a new slogan. And we are going to make

:14:08. > :14:12.a success of it. She hasn't said yet what Brexit

:14:13. > :14:18.will mean but there's no chance And she doesn't want to be

:14:19. > :14:21.defined by it. This speech was mainly

:14:22. > :14:24.about the economy. But she barely mentioned

:14:25. > :14:27.the deficit, cutting that defined Instead, she talked about helping

:14:28. > :14:31.people to share the fruits of economic success,

:14:32. > :14:37.and industrial policy putting workers on company boards to tackle

:14:38. > :14:39.excessive bosses' pay, It doesn't matter to me

:14:40. > :14:49.whether you are Amazon, Google or Starbucks, you have a duty

:14:50. > :14:51.to put something back. You have a debt to your fellow

:14:52. > :14:54.citizens and a responsibility The key test is how much

:14:55. > :15:00.she will intervene in the economy Theresa May was the Home Secretary

:15:01. > :15:07.who failed to cut it, Whether she can reduce it

:15:08. > :15:12.will now depend in part on - yes, you guessed it -

:15:13. > :15:15.the Brexit negotiations. Her support in the

:15:16. > :15:22.party appears broad. Left and right, Leavers

:15:23. > :15:24.and Remainers, MPs from the length The results showed that they are

:15:25. > :15:33.Conservative Party can come together, and under my

:15:34. > :15:38.leadership it will. Leaving the EU will delight

:15:39. > :15:48.the party's Eurosceptics. But if we were to end

:15:49. > :15:50.up with Brexit-lite, The need for unity

:15:51. > :15:53.goes much further. We will make Britain a country

:15:54. > :15:58.that works for everyone. She enters Number 10 promising

:15:59. > :16:00.radical policies for working people, people who perhaps think politicians

:16:01. > :16:05.don't stick to their policies. Brexit will be hard,

:16:06. > :16:29.but the task of overcoming that We me is one of the most prominent

:16:30. > :16:32.commentators at Westminster, assistant editor of the Spectator.

:16:33. > :16:35.When David Cameron makes his statement today, what will he want

:16:36. > :16:42.to underline at the end of his six years in office? He will want to set

:16:43. > :16:48.out as he sees his legacy as being. Everybody else will see it as being

:16:49. > :16:53.the Prime Minister who took the UK out of the European Union. Gay

:16:54. > :16:58.marriage, he will want to craft a legacy for himself. He wanted his

:16:59. > :17:02.second term to be about his legacy but he never had a chance to

:17:03. > :17:06.implement that. When we saw the scenes in the House today, there

:17:07. > :17:09.were jokes and standing ovation, but underlining that was a sense of

:17:10. > :17:13.sadness and regret for Conservatives that this Premiership has come to an

:17:14. > :17:19.end in this way. Absolutely, this wasn't how David Cameron had planned

:17:20. > :17:23.it. You could see he was moved by the speeches of his colleagues.

:17:24. > :17:29.Peter Lilley, he was surprised by the tribute he was given by him.

:17:30. > :17:33.These images are from earlier. A penny for his thoughts at this

:17:34. > :17:37.point. He is leaving the House of Commons for the last time as Prime

:17:38. > :17:43.Minister, after six years appearing at the dispatch box. Five years in

:17:44. > :17:47.challenging times in the coalition Government, and it is just over a

:17:48. > :17:54.year ago, he is the Prime Minister who for the first time since 1992

:17:55. > :18:00.delivers a Conservative majority, and he has been forced out of office

:18:01. > :18:03.What an extraordinary game, that you can win a surprise majority and be

:18:04. > :18:07.leaving Downing Street earlier than you thought in the past few weeks.

:18:08. > :18:11.On Monday he thought he would be leaving by the end of the summer.

:18:12. > :18:18.But he's had to pack his bags quickly. He was giving one of those

:18:19. > :18:23.polished performances that we are used to. And there another another

:18:24. > :18:28.shot of him entering the car, with Samantha. The children where there

:18:29. > :18:31.too, up in the Public Gallery, one of the daughters cheering while the

:18:32. > :18:38.Conservatives were clapping. Those are scenes from earlier. A thought

:18:39. > :18:43.for the incomer, Mrs May, who spent six challenging years at the Home

:18:44. > :18:47.Office. There'll be some who criticise the record there, although

:18:48. > :18:51.most people seem agreed she is meticulous, very hard working. She

:18:52. > :18:55.is not one of these people who plays political games in the way others

:18:56. > :18:59.do. What for you are the qualities she will bring here which will

:19:00. > :19:04.possibly lead to her getting on top of things? The funny thing about

:19:05. > :19:09.this leadership moving so quickly, we haven't had a chance to

:19:10. > :19:14.scrutinise Theresa May's time at the Home Office. She is more of a sketch

:19:15. > :19:20.than a picture. We have to get to know her as Prime Minister. She is

:19:21. > :19:25.no nonsense, hard working. She doesn't have a set like Cameron. She

:19:26. > :19:29.appoints people she really respects. Quite tough people around her as

:19:30. > :19:32.well. This was the group the other day when she acknowledged the

:19:33. > :19:38.election as leader of the Conservative Party. Of course, there

:19:39. > :19:43.are quite a few familiar face there is who might finish up in

:19:44. > :19:49.Government. I am going to put you on the spot. Who do you think are up

:19:50. > :19:52.for the top three jobs at the Home Office, Foreign Secretary and

:19:53. > :19:57.Chancellor? I loved how keen all the MPs around Theresa May looked. It

:19:58. > :20:02.was Jobcentre Plus for Parliament wasn't it. Chris Grayling, her

:20:03. > :20:09.campaign manager, will do very well. Philip Hammond is being touted for

:20:10. > :20:12.Chancellor. Justine Greening potentially for Foreign Secretary,

:20:13. > :20:17.given that she was at international development. She has worked hard in

:20:18. > :20:21.cabinet doing something she didn't necessarily want and maybe deserves

:20:22. > :20:26.a promotion. Do you think it will look different in terms of the

:20:27. > :20:31.gender balance? She is keen to improve the gender balance of her

:20:32. > :20:36.Cabinet. She has always encouraged women in whatever stage of politics

:20:37. > :20:40.they are at. She can't have a Cabinet that has Remainers in the

:20:41. > :20:44.top jobs. She has to be careful about the offices of state to make

:20:45. > :20:52.sure there are those who campaigned for Leave as well as those for

:20:53. > :20:58.Remain. Isobel Hartmann, thank you. And there's the bird's-eye view of

:20:59. > :21:01.Downing Street for you. If you are watching on BBC One, BBC News

:21:02. > :21:05.Channel or BBC World, we are covering events this afternoon, the

:21:06. > :21:09.transfer of power between one Prime Minister and another. David Cameron

:21:10. > :21:13.shortly, we think, to leave Downing Street to head for Buckingham

:21:14. > :21:17.Palace. Past the vast ex-expanse of Horse Guards Parade and up to

:21:18. > :21:22.Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the Queen. Queen.

:21:23. > :21:27.Then we expect to see Mrs May, the Home Secretary, arriving in Downing

:21:28. > :21:29.Street soon after that take up her position as First Lord of the

:21:30. > :21:34.Treasury and Prime Minister. All of that to come. Not long to wait. We

:21:35. > :21:37.are expecting some movement here within the next few minutes. We

:21:38. > :21:42.mentioned Prime Minister's Questions earlier, which set the tone for the

:21:43. > :21:45.day in many ways. One of those polished performances from Mr

:21:46. > :21:48.Cameron, delighting lots of people on the backbenches, many of whom

:21:49. > :21:54.paid tribute to his leadership of the last six years, despite the

:21:55. > :21:54.circumstances of his departure. Let's not forget those

:21:55. > :22:01.circumstances. The youngest Prime Minister to leave

:22:02. > :22:04.office for more than 100 years. After six years and 62

:22:05. > :22:10.days, it's all over. Far swifter than he'd

:22:11. > :22:15.planned or expected. One last journey to the Commons

:22:16. > :22:18.for David Cameron's final His successor at his side

:22:19. > :22:25.and his wife and children Mr Speaker, this morning I had

:22:26. > :22:29.meetings with ministerial Other than one meeting this

:22:30. > :22:34.afternoon with Her Majesty the Queen, the diary for the rest

:22:35. > :22:37.of my day is remarkably light. And if he's looking to fill it,

:22:38. > :22:40.there were suggestions aplenty. I'm told that there are lots

:22:41. > :22:43.of leadership roles out There's even across the big Pond a

:22:44. > :22:55.role that needs filling. And rather than clashing

:22:56. > :23:01.with the Prime Minister, the Labour Mr Speaker, it's only right that

:23:02. > :23:07.after six years as Prime Minister we thank the right honourable member

:23:08. > :23:11.for Whitney for his service. I've often disagreed with him,

:23:12. > :23:14.but there are some of his achievements I really

:23:15. > :23:16.want to welcome and pay One is helping to secure

:23:17. > :23:21.the release of Shaker Aamer from And legislating to achieve equal

:23:22. > :23:27.marriage within our society. A moment too for Mr Cameron

:23:28. > :23:30.to attempt to shape his own legacy. There are 2.5 million more people

:23:31. > :23:37.in work in our country. There's almost a million

:23:38. > :23:39.more businesses. 2.9 million apprenticeships have

:23:40. > :23:46.been trained under this Government. And he couldn't resist a last dig

:23:47. > :23:49.at the Labour leader. I have to say, I'm beginning

:23:50. > :23:54.to admire his tenacity. He has reminded me of the Black

:23:55. > :24:00.Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail. He's been kicked so many times

:24:01. > :24:03.but he says, "Keep going, But in the end Jeremy

:24:04. > :24:09.Corbyn wished him well. It was almost as if the two

:24:10. > :24:12.leaders had made up. First of all, thank you for the kind

:24:13. > :24:15.remarks and the good wishes to my amazing wife, Samantha,

:24:16. > :24:17.and my lovely children, who are all watching

:24:18. > :24:19.from the gallery today. And there was one final thing

:24:20. > :24:22.he had to set straight And the rumour that

:24:23. > :24:26.somehow I don't love And I have photographic

:24:27. > :24:31.evidence to prove it. He belongs to the house

:24:32. > :24:35.and the staff love him And from his backbenchers

:24:36. > :24:40.there was admiration. Can I first of all join all those

:24:41. > :24:44.in thanking the Prime Minister for the statesmanlike leadership

:24:45. > :24:49.he's given to our party and to the country for the last six

:24:50. > :24:52.years, and thank him particularly on this occasion for the debating

:24:53. > :24:57.eloquence but also the wit and the humour that he's always

:24:58. > :24:59.brought to Prime Minister's But it wasn't all warm

:25:00. > :25:06.words for Mr Cameron. The Prime Minister's legacy

:25:07. > :25:09.will undoubtedly be that he's taken us to the brink of being taken out

:25:10. > :25:14.of the European Union, so we will not be applauding his

:25:15. > :25:29.Premiership on these benches. On to his feet for a final

:25:30. > :25:32.time as Prime Minister. The last thing I would say is that

:25:33. > :25:35.you can You can get a lot of things done,

:25:36. > :25:40.and that in the end, the public service, the national interest,

:25:41. > :25:42.that's what it is all about. Nothing is really

:25:43. > :25:44.impossible if you put your After all, as I once said,

:25:45. > :25:47.I was the future once. For now though fond farewells,

:25:48. > :25:53.one last wave, a final goodbye, as power passes from one

:25:54. > :26:10.Prime Minister to the next. The world's media gathered in

:26:11. > :26:14.Downing Street ready for the departure. The podium has been

:26:15. > :26:20.installed. That means we are just a few minutes away from seeing David

:26:21. > :26:25.Cameron, possibly members of his family, leaving Downing Street for

:26:26. > :26:32.the last time as Prime Minister, after six years and 62 days in

:26:33. > :26:38.office as first Lord as First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister

:26:39. > :26:42.of the United Kingdom. It is a very significant day in political

:26:43. > :26:48.history, because of the circumstances in which this turnover

:26:49. > :26:53.has come about. In which this transfer of power has come about.

:26:54. > :26:59.Let's stay on these images. Vicki Young is with me. We think back of

:27:00. > :27:03.previous occasions, on the day Tony Blair #r50i6d and left, when Gordon

:27:04. > :27:10.Brown took over, and setting the tone on departure and on arrival is

:27:11. > :27:15.absolutely essential? It is, and they as politicians feel it is a

:27:16. > :27:26.very big deal. We are hearing he is coming out right now. I'm going to

:27:27. > :27:35.move out of the way. Leaving office at the age of 49, the youngest Prime

:27:36. > :27:41.Minister to leave office in over 100 years. He came to office at a very

:27:42. > :27:45.young age of 43, back in 2010. Spending five years this coalition

:27:46. > :27:47.with the Lib Dems, and last year of the election, gaining that first

:27:48. > :27:51.Conservative majority, albeit just 12 seats, for the first time since

:27:52. > :27:57.John Major scored that majority for the Conservatives, in 1992. A very

:27:58. > :28:02.significant achievement for him. Just last May, in 2015, and today

:28:03. > :28:06.having to come out to confront the world's media and to say goodbye to

:28:07. > :28:12.Downing Street, and to say goodbye to Government after his time in

:28:13. > :28:15.office. I'm sure that he'll have some very memorable words to share.

:28:16. > :28:23.Here comes the Prime Minister with members of his family.

:28:24. > :28:30.Samantha and the three children. Good afternoon. When I first stood

:28:31. > :28:35.here in Downing Street on that evening in May 2010, I said we would

:28:36. > :28:38.confront our problems as a country and lead people through difficult

:28:39. > :28:44.decisions so that, together, we could reach better times. It has not

:28:45. > :28:47.been an easy journey, and of course we have not got every decision

:28:48. > :28:52.right. But I do believe that today our country is much stronger. Above

:28:53. > :28:57.all, it was about turning around the economy, and with the deficit cut by

:28:58. > :29:01.two thirds, 2.5 million more people in work, and 1 million more

:29:02. > :29:07.businesses, there can be no doubt that our economy is immeasurably

:29:08. > :29:11.stronger. Politicians like to talk about policies, but in the end it is

:29:12. > :29:16.about people's lives. I think of the people doing jobs who were

:29:17. > :29:20.previously unemployed. I think of the businesses that were just ideas

:29:21. > :29:26.and someone's head and that today are making a go of it and providing

:29:27. > :29:29.people with livelihoods. I think of the hard-working families paying

:29:30. > :29:34.lower taxes and getting higher wages because of the first-ever national

:29:35. > :29:37.living wage. I think of the children who were languishing in the care

:29:38. > :29:43.system but who have now been adopted by loving families. I think of the

:29:44. > :29:48.parents now able to send their children to good and outstanding

:29:49. > :29:52.schools, including free schools, which simply did not exist before. I

:29:53. > :29:56.think of over 200,000 young people who have taken part in National

:29:57. > :30:01.Citizen Service, the fastest-growing youth programme of its kind in the

:30:02. > :30:05.world, something that, again, wasn't there six years ago. I think of the

:30:06. > :30:08.couples who have been able to get married, who weren't allowed to in

:30:09. > :30:12.the past. And I think of the people on the other side of the world who

:30:13. > :30:18.would not have had clean drinking water, a chance to go to school, or

:30:19. > :30:21.even be alive, were it not for our decision to keep our aid promises to

:30:22. > :30:28.the poorest people and the poorest countries in our world. We have used

:30:29. > :30:31.our stronger economy to invest in our health service. When I walked in

:30:32. > :30:36.there, there were 18,000 people waiting over a year for the

:30:37. > :30:42.operation. Today, it is just 800. Too many, still too long, but our

:30:43. > :30:47.NHS is a national treasure, and one whose staff perform miracles, as I

:30:48. > :30:50.have seen, every day. And we strengthen our nation's defences

:30:51. > :30:54.with submarines, destroyers and frigates, and soon aircraft

:30:55. > :30:58.carriers, rolling out of our shipyards to keep our country safe

:30:59. > :31:02.in a dangerous world. These are the choices and the changes that we

:31:03. > :31:08.made. And I want to thank everyone who's given so much support to me

:31:09. > :31:11.personally over these years. The incredible team at Number Ten, these

:31:12. > :31:17.civil servants whose professionalism and impartiality is one of our

:31:18. > :31:20.country's greatest strengths. And my political advisers, some of whom

:31:21. > :31:27.have been with me since the day I stood for my party's leadership 11

:31:28. > :31:30.years ago. I want to thank my children, Nancy, Elwyn and Florence,

:31:31. > :31:34.for whom Downing Street has been a lovely home over these last six

:31:35. > :31:40.years. They sometimes take the red boxes full of work. Lawrence once

:31:41. > :31:46.climbed into one before a foreign trip and said, take me with you.

:31:47. > :31:50.Well, no more boxes. And above all, I want to thank Samantha, the love

:31:51. > :31:55.of my life. You have kept me vaguely sane, and as well as being an

:31:56. > :31:58.amazing wife, mother and businesswoman, you have done

:31:59. > :32:02.something every week in that building behind me to celebrate the

:32:03. > :32:05.best of voluntary service in our country. We will shortly be heading

:32:06. > :32:10.to Buckingham Palace to see Her Majesty the Queen, where I will

:32:11. > :32:14.tender my resignation as Prime Minister, and I will advise Her

:32:15. > :32:18.Majesty to invite Theresa May to form a new item illustrations. I am

:32:19. > :32:22.delighted that, for the second time in British history, the new Prime

:32:23. > :32:28.Minister will be a woman and once again a Conservative. I believe

:32:29. > :32:31.Theresa will provide strong and stable leadership in fulfilling the

:32:32. > :32:35.Conservative manifesto on which we were elected, and I wish you well in

:32:36. > :32:40.negotiating the best possible terms for Britain's exit from the European

:32:41. > :32:45.Union. Let me finish by saying this - the spirit of service is one of

:32:46. > :32:49.this country's most remarkable qualities. I've seen that service

:32:50. > :32:53.day in, day out in the incredible work of our Armed Forces, our

:32:54. > :32:58.intelligence agencies, and our police. It is something I always

:32:59. > :33:04.knew, but as Prime Minister uses it so directly that it blows you away.

:33:05. > :33:07.-- you see it. And of course writing those heartbreaking letters to the

:33:08. > :33:12.families who have lost loved ones is a poignant reminder of the profound

:33:13. > :33:16.scale of what these men and women do for us in the defence of our

:33:17. > :33:21.freedoms and our way of life. We must never forget that. In a

:33:22. > :33:24.different way, I have seen the same spirit of service in the amazing

:33:25. > :33:28.contributions of countless volunteers, in communities up and

:33:29. > :33:33.down our country, who are making our society bigger and stronger. And I

:33:34. > :33:37.am proud that every day for the past years I have used the office of

:33:38. > :33:41.Prime Minister in a nonpolitical way to recognise and thanked almost 600

:33:42. > :33:46.of them as points of light whose service can be an inspiration to us

:33:47. > :33:49.all. For me, politics has always been about public service in the

:33:50. > :33:56.national interest. It is simple to say but often hard to do. But one of

:33:57. > :34:00.the things that sustains you in this job is the sense that, yes, our

:34:01. > :34:04.politics is full of argument and debate, and it can get quite heated,

:34:05. > :34:10.but no matter how difficult the decisions are, there is a great

:34:11. > :34:14.sense of British fair play, a quiet but prevailing sense that most

:34:15. > :34:19.people wish their Prime Minister well and want them to stick at it

:34:20. > :34:22.and get on with the job. So I want to take this moment to say thank you

:34:23. > :34:26.to all those who have written letters and e-mails offering me that

:34:27. > :34:31.support, people who I will never get to meet and never get to thank

:34:32. > :34:36.personally. It has been the greatest honour of my life to serve our

:34:37. > :34:41.country as Prime Minister over these last six years, and to serve as

:34:42. > :34:47.leader of my party for almost 11 years. And as we leave for the last

:34:48. > :34:54.time, my only wish is continued success for this great country that

:34:55. > :35:08.I love so very much. Thank you. APPLAUSE

:35:09. > :35:36.HUW: David Cameron embraces Samantha and the three children on the

:35:37. > :35:42.threshold of Ten Downing Street, applause from the staff who have

:35:43. > :35:44.been with him for the last six years.

:35:45. > :35:48.Mr Cameron defined his legacy in his own terms, set out his achievements

:35:49. > :35:56.as he would like them to be seen. And so the children make their way

:35:57. > :35:59.to one of the cars, as Mr Cameron has one last look along Downing

:36:00. > :36:03.Street at the massed ranks of the media here. But more importantly for

:36:04. > :36:07.him, all of his friends, colleagues and staff, who are wishing them well

:36:08. > :36:15.as they bark on the next phase of their lives. So, for the last time,

:36:16. > :36:20.into the prime ministerial car. Mr Cameron glances again along Downing

:36:21. > :36:28.Street. APPLAUSE

:36:29. > :36:34.He acknowledges the applause, fully aware of the import of this

:36:35. > :36:39.occasion, and what it means for him, the end of his premiership after six

:36:40. > :36:45.years in circumstances that he would never have wished.

:36:46. > :36:51.And the Prime Minister will cavalcade now making its way along

:36:52. > :36:56.Downing Street and some crowds gathered at the gates of Downing

:36:57. > :37:00.Street, some of them wanting to voice support, others wanting to

:37:01. > :37:09.voice displeasure at what pace as Mr Cameron's record in government. --

:37:10. > :37:13.at what they say. On past the Scotland Office, then Horse Guards,

:37:14. > :37:16.the building on the left, beyond that Will Skelton parade, where Mr

:37:17. > :37:22.Cameron has attended Trooping the Colour for the last six years. --

:37:23. > :37:30.beyond that Horse Guards Parade. Then up towards Trafalgar Square,

:37:31. > :37:37.ready for the great sweep under Admiralty Arch, and then down along

:37:38. > :37:39.the Mall, the great processional route which leads directly down to

:37:40. > :37:57.Buckingham Palace. Lord Nelson surveying the scene

:37:58. > :38:01.entered Albert -- in Trafalgar Square. Then a left turn and

:38:02. > :38:05.Admiralty Arch, which these days is privately owned. From 1912, it was a

:38:06. > :38:14.very grand part of the government property portfolio in central

:38:15. > :38:29.London. Making their way now slowly down the Mall. Buckingham Palace is

:38:30. > :38:33.directly ahead. They go down, switching lanes, as is the Prime

:38:34. > :38:37.Minister's right, along towards Buckingham Palace. Vicki Young, our

:38:38. > :38:42.chief political correspondent, just a quick thought on the nature of the

:38:43. > :38:47.Prime Minister's statement in Downing Street. There must be a part

:38:48. > :38:50.of it, really wondering how this happened, how this happened so

:38:51. > :38:55.quickly that he is leaving here, anyway that he did not want to

:38:56. > :38:58.leave, because of that vote on the European Union. But he will want to

:38:59. > :39:03.make sure that his legacy stands, that it is more than just the Brexit

:39:04. > :39:07.vote, talking about those in society who do not have as much as others,

:39:08. > :39:10.talking on a personal level about employment, saying these are not

:39:11. > :39:14.statistics, these are people who have jobs, how we wanted to help

:39:15. > :39:19.them, talking about gay marriage, equality, these are the things he

:39:20. > :39:23.wants to be remembered for, not the Brexit vote. We will talk more about

:39:24. > :39:28.this statement later, but they are heading towards the Palace, crossing

:39:29. > :39:33.St James's Park there, and Sophie Raworth is at Buckingham Palace to

:39:34. > :39:35.look at the arrivals there. Indeed, the Prime Minister real

:39:36. > :39:40.cavalcade just arriving at the Victoria memorial. It is just a

:39:41. > :39:45.short drive to Buckingham Palace from Downing Street, the Prime

:39:46. > :39:49.Minister, his wife Samantha, and their three children in a separate

:39:50. > :39:55.vehicle, arriving here at the gates of Buckingham Palace. David Cameron,

:39:56. > :40:00.who arrived in Downing Street at just the age of 43, the youngest

:40:01. > :40:06.Prime Minister for almost 200 years, now becoming the youngest tourism

:40:07. > :40:11.in, the youngest since 1895. So they sweep across the forecourt at

:40:12. > :40:15.Buckingham Palace, into the inner quadrangle, where they will be

:40:16. > :40:20.greeted by the Queen's Equerry and a lady in waiting. I am joined here by

:40:21. > :40:25.Hugo Vickers, the Royal historian, and also by Nicholas Witchell, talk

:40:26. > :40:30.us through what will happen now. I remember being in the quadrangle six

:40:31. > :40:34.years and two months ago when he was appointed, there was no escort

:40:35. > :40:37.group, no motorcycles from the special escort group of the

:40:38. > :40:41.Metropolitan Police, he got stuck in traffic. Now, with his wife, and we

:40:42. > :40:48.think with the children in the people carrier behind, being greeted

:40:49. > :40:51.by Wing Commander Fletcher, the Queen's Equerry, who will escort the

:40:52. > :40:55.Prime Minister and the Prime Minister alone, his wife will be

:40:56. > :40:59.greeted by a lady in waiting, and she will be taken into an anteroom

:41:00. > :41:03.while the serious business is done, while the Prime Minister, as he

:41:04. > :41:06.still is, it goes in. And the children behind them, I think I am

:41:07. > :41:13.right in saying that is the first time we have seen the Prime

:41:14. > :41:17.Minister's children come for this resignation. We saw Gordon Brown

:41:18. > :41:21.coming, but they did not come to Buckingham Palace for the audience

:41:22. > :41:24.where he resigned. The entire family going in, the first time we have

:41:25. > :41:29.really seen the Cameron children on public display, if one can use that

:41:30. > :41:34.word in that way. Into the Palace, up to the Queen's Private audience

:41:35. > :41:37.room, where it will just be David Cameron and Her Majesty the Queen,

:41:38. > :41:41.and he will tender his resignation. Once that has been done, then

:41:42. > :41:46.certainly Mrs Cameron, and I would imagine the three children, will

:41:47. > :41:52.also be invited into the audience room to spare and perhaps just a few

:41:53. > :41:58.minutes with the Queen as she talks about, well, what will it took

:41:59. > :42:02.about? We never know. We never know. You go, you know perhaps more than

:42:03. > :42:07.many people, but it is remarkable that it remains terribly private. It

:42:08. > :42:11.does, and the great advantage of having a constitutional head of

:42:12. > :42:14.state like the Queen, the departing Prime Minister, they can chat away

:42:15. > :42:19.happily with each other, and it is private. Perhaps that is the only

:42:20. > :42:23.person to whom the Prime Minister can unburden themselves of their

:42:24. > :42:26.various problems in the sure knowledge that it will not go any

:42:27. > :42:29.further. Occasionally, a Prime Minister might write their memoirs

:42:30. > :42:33.and tell us that they got a lot particular Lee well with the Queen,

:42:34. > :42:37.we have to take their word for it, because we never hear it from the

:42:38. > :42:42.Queen herself. David Cameron did speak about the audience he has with

:42:43. > :42:47.the Queen, how he finds it easier to talk to her than to others. Via is

:42:48. > :42:52.not alone in that, that is the great advantage, because the Queen has

:42:53. > :42:56.been seeing state papers for 64 years, and David Cameron was only

:42:57. > :43:01.born in 1966. The Queen had already been on the throne for 14 years

:43:02. > :43:06.before he was even born, so imagine the experience that she has. I think

:43:07. > :43:10.that is the most fascinating aspect of it. When the Prime Minister, if

:43:11. > :43:14.he gives formal advice, she will take it, but if she advises him, he

:43:15. > :43:19.does not have to take it, but he would do well to listen. Weekly

:43:20. > :43:23.audiences take place every Wednesday, we don't know how long

:43:24. > :43:25.they go on for, but presumably the Queen does get to know her Prime

:43:26. > :43:36.Ministers well in that time. She does, and she will ask them

:43:37. > :43:41.various questions, so it means they have to be up to speed with what's

:43:42. > :43:44.happened since the last audience. It is a bit like reporting to the

:43:45. > :43:49.headmistress if you like, what's been going on. I would be very

:43:50. > :43:52.surprised if the Queen hadn't been watching on the television the

:43:53. > :43:58.statement the Prime Minister made in Downing Street. Putting aside all

:43:59. > :44:03.considerations, it was quite a poignant moment seeing the Prime

:44:04. > :44:08.Minister declaring his love for his wife, praising her for the support

:44:09. > :44:13.she has given him throughout the Prime Ministership, and seeing the

:44:14. > :44:17.three children there. What would they have made of the ranks of

:44:18. > :44:23.photographer there is, which they don't normally see. And they've been

:44:24. > :44:27.out of the limelight for the last six years. And that's our

:44:28. > :44:33.obligation, but on this occasion, as Gordon Brown did when he departed

:44:34. > :44:36.from Downing Street, there was the family tableau of them all, with

:44:37. > :44:40.their mother and father to Downing Street. I don't suppose necessarily

:44:41. > :44:47.the children will have Plett the Queen before. They see their father

:44:48. > :44:52.going off every Wednesday evening gooing off to meet the Queen, and

:44:53. > :44:57.hear him discreetly talking about his meeting with the Queen. But here

:44:58. > :44:59.they are with this family group and this huge constitutional

:45:00. > :45:03.significance. This is the moment when David Cameron is resigning. He

:45:04. > :45:08.tenders his resignation and he advises the Queen to appoint Theresa

:45:09. > :45:13.May as the next Prime Minister? Yes, and when Theresa May gets, there

:45:14. > :45:19.what the Queen will be asking her is, are you in a position to form an

:45:20. > :45:24.administration. And we though that she is. When Harold Macmillan took

:45:25. > :45:32.over after the Suez crisis, he told the Queen, I might only last six

:45:33. > :45:38.years. He said that six years later she reminded him of that. The

:45:39. > :45:41.Queen's role in this, she has no role in who will be the next Prime

:45:42. > :45:46.Minister, but that wasn't always the case. No, in the early days the

:45:47. > :45:53.royal prerogative was such that if there was any doubt about a Prime

:45:54. > :45:57.Minister, she would take soundings from people, the Marquis of

:45:58. > :46:03.Salisbury and so forth, but now it is arranged by the party and by

:46:04. > :46:06.members of Parliament and sometimes, if Theresa May had this election, it

:46:07. > :46:09.would've been members of the Conservative Party in the country

:46:10. > :46:13.who would have decide hood the next leader was. But the Queen is a very

:46:14. > :46:16.important part of the constitution. There are three elements, the

:46:17. > :46:20.elected House of Commons, the House of Lords, which is in a way the

:46:21. > :46:24.chamber which tidies up the legislation. They are not elected.

:46:25. > :46:28.And there is the Queen, who is there by hereditary right. No Bill becomes

:46:29. > :46:32.an act of Parliament until she signs it. So nothing can happen until it

:46:33. > :46:40.reaches her, which means a lot of people see it along the way. The

:46:41. > :46:44.Palace realised it was in danger of damaging itself in 1963 when the

:46:45. > :46:47.monarch was to some extent involved in choosing who the next Prime

:46:48. > :46:52.Minister would be. It was interesting that David Cameron he

:46:53. > :46:58.would resign and tender his advice to the Queen to cull upon treatment

:46:59. > :47:04.strictly speaking, once he has resigned as Prime Minister his

:47:05. > :47:10.advice counts for nothing, because it is not Advice with a capital A,

:47:11. > :47:14.and it is one of the areas, one of the those few circumstances in which

:47:15. > :47:18.an outgoing Prime Minister may have a motive in offering advice which

:47:19. > :47:22.may not be in the best interests of the country. It is perfectly clear

:47:23. > :47:27.on this occasion who the Queen will send for. That person has already

:47:28. > :47:30.been sent for. Theresa May, even now, will be waiting with her

:47:31. > :47:35.chauffeur with the engines prepared to scoot up here with her husband as

:47:36. > :47:39.soon as, or almost as soon as David Cameron has left. But yes, it is

:47:40. > :47:44.very clear on this occasion who is to take over. And very shortly,

:47:45. > :47:49.because I notice that the Camerons arrived at Buckingham Palace at 9

:47:50. > :47:53.minutes to 5, so we are about 8 minutes into their attendance at

:47:54. > :47:59.Buckingham Palace, very shortly they will be leaving. I don't think we'll

:48:00. > :48:11.see the changeover of cars, which in some occasions there was. Stepped up

:48:12. > :48:16.security. The Prime Minister leaves behind his prime ministerial

:48:17. > :48:22.limousine. Outgoing Prime Ministers have security, just as the Home

:48:23. > :48:25.Secretary will have had security apparatus behind her, and

:48:26. > :48:30.particularly when it was clear she was to become Prime Minister. In

:48:31. > :48:38.terms of what we are going to see in the next few minutes, very little,

:48:39. > :48:42.as there are no cameras inside the Palace, but when David Cameron

:48:43. > :48:51.became Prime Minister for the first time there was a photo issued within

:48:52. > :48:55.10 minutes, of the Queen and David Cameron. It was the first time they

:48:56. > :48:58.had done that. There's a Press Association photographer I think in

:48:59. > :49:02.the audience room who will be there for the first five minutes I believe

:49:03. > :49:07.of David Cameron's leave taking and Theresa May's audience, as Hugo has

:49:08. > :49:10.been explaining. Are you in a position to form a Government? Yes,

:49:11. > :49:12.will you therefore form a Government? And then the shaking of

:49:13. > :49:19.hands. That's the point when Theresa May's husband will be invited in. It

:49:20. > :49:21.will be interesting to see how long the audience with the Camerons

:49:22. > :49:23.takes. I don't suppose it will be terribly long, as David Cameron of

:49:24. > :49:26.all people will be aware of the need to have a new Prime Minister in

:49:27. > :49:29.place. She will be anxious to get back to Downing Street to make the

:49:30. > :49:33.statement outside Downing Street in exactly the same position as Mr

:49:34. > :49:38.Cameron was making his leave-taking statement. And I was struck, I must

:49:39. > :49:42.say. It was quite personal. Political at times, looking back on

:49:43. > :49:47.his administration, but saying, no more red boxes. One sensed an area

:49:48. > :49:53.of relief in his voice. And the children kicking the red boxes, as

:49:54. > :49:59.he said. The youngest one wanted to get into one, and go abroad with

:50:00. > :50:04.him. Humorous to the last. It was a human family gathering there, with

:50:05. > :50:09.Florence, I think, the eldest, no, Nancy the eldest daughter, looking

:50:10. > :50:11.and gazing and taking in that was happening around her father, the

:50:12. > :50:17.Prime Minister. Gosh, what memories for those children. And it is all

:50:18. > :50:23.over so quickly. That oughtience we expect will not last terribly long.

:50:24. > :50:27.We are expecting Theresa May within the next half-hour, and for David

:50:28. > :50:31.Cameron it is done? It is an extraordinary process. As Nick was

:50:32. > :50:36.saying, it all happens incredibly quickly. Until a couple of days ago,

:50:37. > :50:39.that was the children's home and they were likely to stay there for

:50:40. > :50:44.some time. David Cameron himself was very much I think looking forward to

:50:45. > :50:47.a tour around Europe, going to different places, and saying

:50:48. > :50:52.goodbye. All that's been denied him by the sudden decision that Theresa

:50:53. > :50:56.May will be the Prime Minister. We should just point out, lest people

:50:57. > :50:59.get slightly confused, there's a meeting of the Privy Council taking

:51:00. > :51:05.place at Buckingham Palace tonight. There are a lot of police

:51:06. > :51:09.motorcyclists whizzing around, whistling their whistles to stop the

:51:10. > :51:13.traffic. There's a meeting of the Privy Council taking place, so we

:51:14. > :51:17.don't believe that any of these vehicles contain Theresa May. It

:51:18. > :51:20.would not be the done thing for her to arrive before David Cameron has

:51:21. > :51:23.left. It is very much orchestrated, and she will not leave the Cabinet

:51:24. > :51:28.Office until David Cameron's left the Palace? Absolutely, whether it

:51:29. > :51:32.is somebody from Buckingham Palace phones up to say Mr Cameron, not the

:51:33. > :51:37.Prime Minister, has now left, so give it a few minutes and you can

:51:38. > :51:41.come on up. But yes, the choreography of this is something

:51:42. > :51:47.the Palace doesn't do very often but this is what officials, that's what

:51:48. > :51:51.they do. They are in touch to make sure that this choreography goes as

:51:52. > :51:54.smoothly as possible. But amongst the Privy Councillors going to

:51:55. > :51:57.Buckingham Palace, and it is a reminder that the normal business of

:51:58. > :52:01.government continues, despite the tact that we are change Prime

:52:02. > :52:06.Minister. There's a routine meeting of the Privy Council taking place at

:52:07. > :52:09.the Palace then the Queen will be attending after she has appointed

:52:10. > :52:14.her new Prime Minister. So that's taking place at the moment. Amongst

:52:15. > :52:18.the Privy Councillors attending tonight is Chris Grayling. Grayling.

:52:19. > :52:21.He might well be wanting to rather stand by his phone to see what

:52:22. > :52:27.messages might come through. But actually he's got to attend a

:52:28. > :52:30.meeting of the Privy Council. In a quadrangle of Buckingham Palace. No

:52:31. > :52:35.sign of anybody coming out of that portico to the right of the picture.

:52:36. > :52:40.So surely one chapter comes to a close, a new one begins. Theresa

:52:41. > :52:46.May, who will come here soon, will be the Queen's 13th Prime Minister.

:52:47. > :52:48.Yes. The UK's second female Prime Minister. Understand is going to be

:52:49. > :52:52.an entirely new relationship. We understand Theresa May doesn't know

:52:53. > :52:58.the Queen that well, although she must have met her on a number of

:52:59. > :53:03.occasions. How much do we know about how the Queen has got on with her

:53:04. > :53:08.Prime Ministers past? The only way we know is what the Prime Ministers

:53:09. > :53:15.themselves have told us. Harold Wilson told us he got on terribly

:53:16. > :53:18.well with the Queen. Sometimes a certain amount of information comes

:53:19. > :53:21.out through letters that are published. Certainly when Winston

:53:22. > :53:24.Churchill and when Harold Macmillan stepped down, the Queen wrote very

:53:25. > :53:29.nice letters to them thanking them for helping her. In those days she

:53:30. > :53:37.was a young Queen, guiding them. In the case of Macmillan, she said, you

:53:38. > :53:48.have had to help me through a lot of family problems, during the time he

:53:49. > :54:00.was Prime Minister. Nick was talking about the advice that was given.

:54:01. > :54:06.Harold Macmillan summoned the Queen to the Edward VII Hospital, to

:54:07. > :54:08.clinch that Sir Alec Douglas Home should take over instead of Rab

:54:09. > :54:14.Butler. After this PROBLEM WITH SOUND. Next thing was a

:54:15. > :54:23.man from the GPO trying to take away his scram blower telephone. It was

:54:24. > :54:27.disconnected. The Queen is very engaged in political life, very

:54:28. > :54:33.interested. Interested. She will be even more so at this point. One of

:54:34. > :54:38.the great things about the Queen. I think she should be called Elizabeth

:54:39. > :54:44.the Steadfast. All through her reign she has had such a good vision of

:54:45. > :54:49.what it is to be Queen, and she is a very good skilliator. She is a very

:54:50. > :54:55.calming presence. That's one of the great things that she has done. When

:54:56. > :54:59.she went to Scotland, she said everybody should calm down and stay

:55:00. > :55:07.calm and carry on. That's very much her message. I'm sure she will be a

:55:08. > :55:13.great help to treatment she'll have the chance to get to know her better

:55:14. > :55:15.at the end of August, because David Cameron's invitation to Balmoral...

:55:16. > :55:19.It will presumably now be the traditional visit of the Prime

:55:20. > :55:23.Minister and his while. A deeply coded message that the Queen opened

:55:24. > :55:26.at the opening of the Scottish Parliament. No reference to the

:55:27. > :55:31.referendum, or to the explicitly to the fact that we are going through

:55:32. > :55:38.an uncertain time. Just this message encouraging politicians to take time

:55:39. > :55:41.and be calm. And there are those, and let's's be frank about this,

:55:42. > :55:45.who've said this time of great uncertainty the head of state might

:55:46. > :55:48.perhaps have said something rather more explicit to calm nerves. That's

:55:49. > :55:54.not the Queen's style. Her great success rests to very much on the

:55:55. > :55:58.fact that she does step back completely. Even at a time of such

:55:59. > :56:04.uncertainty, unprecedented in our recent memory, she chose not to say

:56:05. > :56:07.anything that was clearly and explicitly a reference to the

:56:08. > :56:14.referendum and the aftermath. In contrast of course to the aftermath

:56:15. > :56:18.of the Scottish referendum, when she urged the country and the different

:56:19. > :56:23.sides to come together. This was I think too difficult, too sensitive,

:56:24. > :56:28.still too political for her advisers and her to feel it was something she

:56:29. > :56:31.could say. But that's what she was doing, skilliating. If you remember

:56:32. > :56:38.the time when the Princess of Wales was killed, when she made that good

:56:39. > :56:44.speech from the Chinese dining room, all these years later it was very

:56:45. > :56:48.calm and measured. I suspect we just saw a Privy Councillor trying to go

:56:49. > :56:54.into the wrong gate of Buckingham Palace. It is the north gate they

:56:55. > :56:59.normally go into but it has roadworks and repairs, so this

:57:00. > :57:02.rather lost, perhaps, Privy Councillor. We hope that's not

:57:03. > :57:08.Theresa May, finding its way in through the correct gate. When

:57:09. > :57:12.Theresa May does come, one of the other things, as Hugo was saying, we

:57:13. > :57:17.are reminded of the consistency and the Constancy of the Queen

:57:18. > :57:22.throughout the 64 years of her reign, and the advice, the advise

:57:23. > :57:27.bomb perhaps she can offer, having had such a long perspective. Winston

:57:28. > :57:31.Churchill, the first Prime Minister, was born during the reign of Queen

:57:32. > :57:34.Victoria. We have a third Prime Minister about to be appointed who

:57:35. > :57:40.wasn't born when this reign was began. The first of those of course

:57:41. > :57:42.was tonight. Gordon Brown was born before the Queen's reign started.

:57:43. > :57:48.David Cameron wasn't. The youngest Prime Minister appointed at the age

:57:49. > :57:55.of 43. He is not yet 50, until October. So his Premiership is done

:57:56. > :58:01.at the end of 49. But now Theresa May, who is 59 herself, I shouldn't

:58:02. > :58:07.really give away ladies' ages, should we? She was born at the start

:58:08. > :58:11.of the Queen's reign. We are waiting for the Camerons to emerge. They've

:58:12. > :58:15.been in there for 10 or 15 minutes I think. When David Cameron goes to

:58:16. > :58:21.see the Queen, presumably he is in there now, it will be him on his own

:58:22. > :58:25.tendering his resignation. Afterwards the expectation is

:58:26. > :58:28.Samantha Cameron and the children will be invited to say a few words

:58:29. > :58:32.to the Queen. They certainly will. The first part is formal and

:58:33. > :58:36.private, and it has to be that way. But afterwards, I suspect the Queen

:58:37. > :58:39.will have a certain amount of sympathy for the children and their

:58:40. > :58:43.mother, and will probably send them away from the Palace all feeling a

:58:44. > :58:47.little bit better. After all, they've lost their home. They are to

:58:48. > :58:53.go into a difficulty place. It is going to be very confusing, and this

:58:54. > :58:58.is a rite of passage, the sort of thing the Queen does very well.

:58:59. > :59:04.Winston Churchill, born in 1864, David Cameron born in 1966, almost a

:59:05. > :59:09.century apart. That's extraordinary. I hope Theresa May is not

:59:10. > :59:13.superstitious. She is the 13th Prime Minister being appointed on the 13th

:59:14. > :59:23.of the month, but she doesn't look the superstitious type really.

:59:24. > :59:30.I would have thought that very shortly now we would see the

:59:31. > :59:34.Camerons leaving Buckingham Palace. And then when team-mate does arrive,

:59:35. > :59:41.presumably within the next half-hour, what will happen then? --

:59:42. > :59:47.Theresa May. Again, the formal part will be very brief, she will be

:59:48. > :59:52.taken up to the audience room by the Queen's Equerry, and I'm sure the

:59:53. > :59:56.private secretary will also be there in evidence. But just the Queen and

:59:57. > :00:00.Theresa May will be in the audience room together, and as we have said,

:00:01. > :00:05.the Queen well ask formally, are you in a position to form a government?

:00:06. > :00:09.And she will ask, would you please form a government come to which

:00:10. > :00:13.Theresa May will say, yes, OK. We have a slight difference on this

:00:14. > :00:18.kissing other hand is business. Tony Blair said that he heard that his

:00:19. > :00:22.lips had to brush the Queen's hand, but perhaps I should not take what

:00:23. > :00:26.he says to seriously these days! It is a great opportunity for the Queen

:00:27. > :00:30.to have a chat with the new Prime Minister, it will be quite informal

:00:31. > :00:35.at that point, she might want to ask one or two pertinent questions, but

:00:36. > :00:40.it is more of a formal occasion, as Nick says, with a slightly social

:00:41. > :00:43.elements later. There is plenty of opportunity for them to talk about

:00:44. > :00:47.the more serious issues later. I do not think the Queen will be asking

:00:48. > :00:54.her to name a Cabinet, although Theresa May might well wish to tell

:00:55. > :01:01.her one or two names. And you will have an audience with the Queen next

:01:02. > :01:06.Wednesday, arriving for longer, in-depth discussions. She will, and

:01:07. > :01:09.you will find the Queen very well informed. Ministers have often been

:01:10. > :01:13.caught out by the Queen, they have always said, if they do not do their

:01:14. > :01:17.homework properly, she will catch them out. She asked one question

:01:18. > :01:22.with great theatrical timing, are you sure? And they had better be

:01:23. > :01:25.sure! I would think the Queen might take this opportunity, we don't

:01:26. > :01:30.know, but given that she will be going to Balmoral quite soon, given

:01:31. > :01:33.the seriousness of the situation, I would have thought that she might

:01:34. > :01:39.well want to just start to get a sense of what the Prime Minister's

:01:40. > :01:43.intentions are on these massive issues and challenges that she now

:01:44. > :01:47.faces. There will certainly be another audience next week, but very

:01:48. > :01:50.soon after that the Queen will be going to Balmoral for several

:01:51. > :01:53.months, although the Prime Minister will be invited up, that is not

:01:54. > :01:59.generally until the end of September. So the Queen, who, as we

:02:00. > :02:04.have said, is very fully engaged as head of state, and will want to know

:02:05. > :02:09.what her new Prime Minister's broad intentions are, perhaps what is

:02:10. > :02:12.going to be your strategy. The Queen will be interested, and I am sure

:02:13. > :02:18.that she will have some questions that she will hope to have outlined

:02:19. > :02:23.answers two. The same time, the Queen will be mindful that this is a

:02:24. > :02:26.huge step up for Theresa May, that she has been Home Secretary, a

:02:27. > :02:31.member of the National Security Council and all these other weighty

:02:32. > :02:36.offices, but for anybody to be stepping into the office of Prime

:02:37. > :02:38.Minister at this particular time, just yesterday Sir Nicholas Soames

:02:39. > :02:41.was saying that he couldn't render a time when a Prime Minister was

:02:42. > :02:46.starting the administration facing greater challenges than Winston

:02:47. > :02:50.Churchill, his grandfather, had faced in 1940. Now, of a completely

:02:51. > :02:55.different order, we were fighting a war of national survival then, but

:02:56. > :02:58.there is no doubt, I think, that Mrs May has huge challenges to face, and

:02:59. > :03:02.I think that it is reasonable that the Queen will want to get some sort

:03:03. > :03:06.of sense of, how are you going to tackle this? What sort of ideas do

:03:07. > :03:13.you have about how we should go about it? Still no sign. The

:03:14. > :03:19.policeman outside Buckingham Palace, not great crowds, a lot of tourists,

:03:20. > :03:23.just sightseers going past us, wondering what on earth is going on,

:03:24. > :03:30.and we have been telling them, the Prime Minister is about to resign.

:03:31. > :03:33.We understand that, at the Houses of Parliament, Theresa May will be

:03:34. > :03:38.leaving from the Houses of Parliament shortly. That is where

:03:39. > :03:44.she is at the moment. Crowds gathering there as well. A car

:03:45. > :03:48.waiting at the entrance. That is where she will set off from,

:03:49. > :03:52.presumably not until she has been given the all clear, as it were, not

:03:53. > :03:55.until she has been told that David Cameron has left Buckingham Palace,

:03:56. > :04:01.which we are expecting fairly shortly. The Queen at least has the

:04:02. > :04:04.privilege of not being rushed, and if she wants to chat to David

:04:05. > :04:09.Cameron and her family for a little bit, she will do so, and why not?

:04:10. > :04:12.Gordon Brown spent a long time. There is one other thing that

:04:13. > :04:29.perhaps I should not say, but I am quite keen to. This is -- when

:04:30. > :04:36.misses Blair left, when the Blairs were leaving, she curtsied to her, I

:04:37. > :04:41.think the Queen always wins in the end. I am not going to get into that

:04:42. > :04:47.debate at all! It is interesting, because Margaret Thatcher was always

:04:48. > :04:50.deemed to be the deepest curtsier of any person who met the Queen, and

:04:51. > :04:57.she did it with considerable panache. But that is an interesting

:04:58. > :05:03.relationship, isn't it? It is. The relationship between our only

:05:04. > :05:07.previous head of government and the head of state, and I'm sure no-one

:05:08. > :05:12.but the Queen knows the nature of that relationship, but I think it is

:05:13. > :05:17.fair, is it not, to conclude that there were ups and downs, difficult

:05:18. > :05:20.periods, not least because of the Queen's commitment to the

:05:21. > :05:23.Commonwealth, and all of the difficult moments that there were as

:05:24. > :05:28.a result of that? I quite like the story that Mr Thatcher was worried

:05:29. > :05:32.that she had turned up in the same outfit, the same colour outfit, sent

:05:33. > :05:35.a message, would it be possible to have some advance notice of what the

:05:36. > :05:39.Queen was going to wear? The message came back, the Queen never notices

:05:40. > :05:45.what other women where. There is evidence that the Queen was

:05:46. > :05:49.supportive, because as soon as Mr Thatcher left, she gave her the

:05:50. > :05:54.order of merit, in her personal gift, a very important decoration.

:05:55. > :05:57.-- Mrs Thatcher. Later she was appointed to the House of Lords, so

:05:58. > :06:02.she had all the possible honours that she could possibly need. We are

:06:03. > :06:09.now waiting for David Cameron and his family to emerge from Buckingham

:06:10. > :06:12.Palace. David Cameron having, we think, already tendered his

:06:13. > :06:16.resignation. Shortly afterwards, and it does all seem to be choreographed

:06:17. > :06:23.very tightly, shortly afterwards we expect that Theresa May will leave

:06:24. > :06:28.the Houses of Parliament and climb into the vehicle there waiting

:06:29. > :06:32.outside, which will bring her, and presumably her husband, Philip May,

:06:33. > :06:40.to the Palace, where she will then be asked by the Queen to become the

:06:41. > :06:43.new Prime Minister. You do get the impression that the driver of that

:06:44. > :06:49.car is just waiting for the word to set off. But this audience is

:06:50. > :06:54.certainly taking the best part of half an hour, now since the Camerons

:06:55. > :06:59.arrived at Buckingham Palace, and no sign that we can determine that they

:07:00. > :07:04.are about to leave. But I can't think that it would be very much

:07:05. > :07:07.longer. But by all accounts, from what's David Cameron has said about

:07:08. > :07:13.his relationship with the Queen, it has been a warm relationship, and no

:07:14. > :07:18.doubt she will want to spend some time with him, his wife, with the

:07:19. > :07:22.children, who, as we say, the first children to be there as the Prime

:07:23. > :07:26.Minister offers his resignation. Yes, I think the Queen, as I say,

:07:27. > :07:30.she can take as long as she likes chatting to them, and will perhaps

:07:31. > :07:34.want to ask him all sorts of questions as well. It is a good

:07:35. > :07:38.opportunity for a debrief, she will not have such an opportunity again

:07:39. > :07:41.for a while. She can call upon him at any time in the future, because

:07:42. > :07:46.he is a Privy Councillor, but there is no evidence that she does that

:07:47. > :07:49.sort of thing these days. I think it would be hard to imagine that the

:07:50. > :07:55.Queen and Mr Cameron have not got on. He is, again, leaving aside

:07:56. > :07:59.whatever you think of is politics, he is a very personable, quite

:08:00. > :08:04.humorous, an easy character, it might be said, to warm to, which has

:08:05. > :08:07.not been possible to say that about every person who has occupied the

:08:08. > :08:11.office of Prime Minister during her reign. And I think that there have

:08:12. > :08:16.been some individuals in that office with whom she has found it very

:08:17. > :08:20.difficult to strike up a report, there have been some who have been

:08:21. > :08:24.very friendly, very gregarious, with whom one imagines the Queen has

:08:25. > :08:28.enjoyed those weekly audiences. Others who have been rather harder

:08:29. > :08:31.work. Well, I can't imagine that it has been very hard work with Mr

:08:32. > :08:36.Cameron, there was one terrible faux pas after the Scottish referendum,

:08:37. > :08:41.where he disclosed something of the nature of the conversation that he

:08:42. > :08:45.had with the Queen, with the mayor of New York. And of course, I am

:08:46. > :08:49.sure, he got quite a telling off for that, and he was extremely

:08:50. > :08:54.embarrassed, because he knew that he had really made a mess of that. But

:08:55. > :08:57.I think, other than that, I would imagine that their relationship has

:08:58. > :09:00.been a good and cordial and constructive one, as between the

:09:01. > :09:04.head of state and the head of government. Now, it remains to be

:09:05. > :09:09.seen whether the dynamic of the new relationship between the Queen and

:09:10. > :09:15.Prime Minister May is going to take them time to get to know which

:09:16. > :09:18.other, as any two individuals, as chairman and chief executive, which

:09:19. > :09:21.essentially is what this relationship is akin to, a

:09:22. > :09:24.nonexecutive chairman and a chief executive. But they are going to

:09:25. > :09:29.have to break through and get to know each other, given the

:09:30. > :09:33.seriousness of the situation that Mrs May is facing with their

:09:34. > :09:37.government. We have seen, going from what you said, that he is not very

:09:38. > :09:40.good with microphones, he sometimes forget they are around. There was

:09:41. > :09:45.the tiny was going into Downing Street the other night humming, and

:09:46. > :09:48.there was another time when another private conversation quite recently

:09:49. > :09:53.was picked up. He was talking to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The hats

:09:54. > :09:57.good advice would be to be aware that microphones are quite

:09:58. > :10:01.dangerous. -- perhaps. A statement from Buckingham Palace just now, the

:10:02. > :10:04.following announcement is easy by the communications secretary to the

:10:05. > :10:09.Queen, the right panel David Cameron MP had an audience of the Queen this

:10:10. > :10:13.evening and tendered his resignation as Prime Minister and first Lord of

:10:14. > :10:19.the Treasury, which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept. So we

:10:20. > :10:31.know officially and formally that Mr Cameron has resigned.

:10:32. > :10:39.HUW: the scene at the House of Commons, where Theresa May, until

:10:40. > :10:41.now Home Secretary, is now circling Parliament Square on a way to

:10:42. > :10:44.Buckingham Palace for that audience with the Queen to be invited to form

:10:45. > :10:51.a new government as Prime Minister and first Lord of the Treasury. So

:10:52. > :10:55.Mrs May, with her husband Philip, are on their way. They were waiting

:10:56. > :10:59.for the signal from Buckingham Palace that the audience with the

:11:00. > :11:02.Camerons had ended, and ended with that statement that Nicholas

:11:03. > :11:06.Witchell has just relayed to us, which is that Mr Cameron has

:11:07. > :11:11.formally resigned as Prime Minister, that resignation has been accepted

:11:12. > :11:16.by Her Majesty The Queen, and the call has gone out from the palace to

:11:17. > :11:21.invite Mrs May to come along and attend an audience with Her Majesty,

:11:22. > :11:25.where she will be invited to form a new government. So a different route

:11:26. > :11:29.to the Camerons, going down bird cage walk on the other side of St

:11:30. > :11:31.James's Park, passing Wellington Barracks on the left, then at

:11:32. > :11:40.Buckingham Palace in just a few seconds time. St James's Park, a

:11:41. > :11:43.magnificent sight at this time of year, with all the trees, a great

:11:44. > :11:47.vantage point for the tourists and others who are wanting to look at

:11:48. > :11:52.the exciting political events of the day. They are now seeing Britain's

:11:53. > :11:57.new Prime Minister, Britain's incoming Prime Minister, making her

:11:58. > :12:00.way down towards Buckingham Palace for this transfer of power. And then

:12:01. > :12:05.once the audience has taken place, and who knows how long Mrs May will

:12:06. > :12:09.be there? It could be a good 20 minutes, half an hour, once the

:12:10. > :12:14.audience has taken place, we will then be waiting for Mrs May's

:12:15. > :12:18.departure from Buckingham Palace, and the return not to the Palace of

:12:19. > :12:24.Westminster. But to Downing Street, and to enter Downing Street as the

:12:25. > :12:28.new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and then to address the

:12:29. > :12:32.people of the UK, and indeed to send a message out to people beyond the

:12:33. > :12:39.shores of the United Kingdom, to outline her principles and her

:12:40. > :12:42.thoughts and her philosophy as she prepares to cross the threshold of

:12:43. > :12:52.Downing Street into Number Ten to be come the new Prime Minister. So just

:12:53. > :12:56.passing Wellington Barracks there, and then ready to turn into

:12:57. > :13:05.Buckingham Palace. Quite a few crowds Randy Queen Victoria

:13:06. > :13:09.Memorial. Around the. I'm told the outgoing Prime Minister, Mr Cameron,

:13:10. > :13:16.has just left, so it's Blitz second timing, as one Prime Minister

:13:17. > :13:19.leaves, the incoming Prime Minister makes her way in. -- so split second

:13:20. > :13:28.timing. Crowds around the gates and the

:13:29. > :13:35.entrance to the Palace. They cross under the archway into the

:13:36. > :13:39.forecourt. Ready to be greeted by the Queen's Private Secretary, and

:13:40. > :13:44.other Palace officials, who will have everything ready for this first

:13:45. > :13:49.audience for Mrs May as the incoming Prime Minister. The first of many,

:13:50. > :13:54.no doubt. She'll be here on a weekly base to have that audience with the

:13:55. > :13:58.Queen. That one to one, where we've been told so many times in the past

:13:59. > :14:04.by Tony Blair, John Major and many others, it is a conversation where

:14:05. > :14:11.the Prime Minister feels that he or she can open up and have a very

:14:12. > :14:17.uninhibited conversation with Her Majesty about the pressures and

:14:18. > :14:23.challenges of leading a Government. Especially in such turbulent times.

:14:24. > :14:30.Theresa May is greeted at Buckingham Palace, Philip May her husband,

:14:31. > :14:34.accompanying her. After a brief greeting, they're being shown in to

:14:35. > :14:40.meet Her Majesty for that audience. And there is the scene for you today

:14:41. > :14:44.in central London. Buckingham Palace, Green Park to the right, and

:14:45. > :14:51.St James' Park to the left. This is the route I have no doubt that Mrs

:14:52. > :14:57.May will be following later, along the Mall and back to Downing Street

:14:58. > :15:01.ready for that first prime ministerial statement by Theresa May

:15:02. > :15:08.in Downing Street. Vicki Young is with me. Let's stay on these images,

:15:09. > :15:13.because it gives us a sense of the geography for those who need it.

:15:14. > :15:19.Buckingham Palace just a mile or so from Downing Street, just a few

:15:20. > :15:23.minutes' drive in the car. She may be in there 20 minutes, half an

:15:24. > :15:27.hour, as this is the first audience as the incoming Prime Minister, so

:15:28. > :15:33.I'm sure there'll be quite a bit to discuss at this point. This is the

:15:34. > :15:37.point we never get to know about. Politicians don't talk about the

:15:38. > :15:42.Queen very much except for when they accidentally do. I can't imagine

:15:43. > :15:45.Theresa May coming out and talking about what they were discussing.

:15:46. > :15:50.She's met the Queen before, but this is a huge moment for Theresa May,

:15:51. > :15:55.taking over as Prime Minister far more rapidly than she would have

:15:56. > :16:01.thought. In two days thinking she had a long leadership contest she

:16:02. > :16:07.may or not win, to being told there are no other contenders, you will be

:16:08. > :16:12.the next Prime Minister. There's a lot for her to talk about. The issue

:16:13. > :16:16.of the EU referendum will be uppermost in her mind. She takes

:16:17. > :16:21.over at a time when many people are discussing the idea that it is a

:16:22. > :16:27.divided nation, not just because of the Brexit vote. 48% wanted to

:16:28. > :16:30.remain, 52% wanted to leave. And talking about what happens to

:16:31. > :16:34.Scotland, with Nicola Sturgeon suggesting it might be the time for

:16:35. > :16:38.another referendum. Could the United Kingdom break up? And the divide

:16:39. > :16:42.amongst people when it comes the the economy. It is something that David

:16:43. > :16:46.Cameron has talked about. It is something I'm sure Theresa May will

:16:47. > :16:50.talk about. Trying to do more to ensure the economy works for

:16:51. > :16:53.everybody. She is keen to talk about this one-nation Conservative agenda.

:16:54. > :16:57.She wants to help those at the bottom. She wants to talk about

:16:58. > :17:00.associate justice. E at the bottom. She wants to talk about associate

:17:01. > :17:03.justice. About life chance - the idea that whatever background you

:17:04. > :17:08.come, you can reach the top. She will I'm sure be putting a big

:17:09. > :17:14.emphasis on that when she comes back here and makes a short speech in

:17:15. > :17:20.Downing Street later this evening. For those of you joining us on the

:17:21. > :17:23.BBC News Channel, on BBC One and BBC World, Theresa May has arrived at

:17:24. > :17:28.Buckingham Palace for her audience with the Queen, where she will be

:17:29. > :17:34.invited to form the next Government. I'm going to bring in the

:17:35. > :17:38.Conservative MP Michael Ellis, who has been Mrs May's Parliamentary

:17:39. > :17:42.Private Secretary. Michael, thank you for joining us. You know Mrs

:17:43. > :17:47.Mayor, you worked with her closely. Tell us a little bit how you see

:17:48. > :17:53.today's events? Well, Huw, it is a historic moment. We have now the

:17:54. > :17:58.13th Prime Minister that Her Majesty the Queen will have had serving

:17:59. > :18:03.under her. I frankly think that it is a deeply historic moment in many

:18:04. > :18:10.different ways. Theresa May is the first Home Secretary to go straight

:18:11. > :18:15.to being Prime Minister since Palmerston in 1855. She broke

:18:16. > :18:20.records in her tenure in the Home Office. She served for over six

:18:21. > :18:25.years. One of the longest periods for 100 years. I think she's going

:18:26. > :18:29.be a Prime Minister who continues to break records. She is clearly

:18:30. > :18:34.someone who is deeply committed to public service. She is deeply

:18:35. > :18:40.committed to duty. She is the daughter of a vicar. I think she

:18:41. > :18:44.almost certainly learnt a lot of that public service, social

:18:45. > :18:50.responsibility from her late father. I think we've got a lot to look

:18:51. > :18:54.forward to, in challenging times, Huw, because clearly we have

:18:55. > :18:58.circumstances that are quite turbulent at the moment in politics.

:18:59. > :19:04.That will be a polite way of putting the last three weeks. But she's more

:19:05. > :19:09.than capable. In fact extremely capable of dealing with anything

:19:10. > :19:15.that the political situation throws up in this country. I think we'll

:19:16. > :19:21.see a very effective Prime Minister in Theresa May. You choose the words

:19:22. > :19:25.challenging and you say turbulent. I'm just wondering from your

:19:26. > :19:29.experience of working closely with her, tell us a little more about the

:19:30. > :19:32.qualities you think will lend themselves well to the very

:19:33. > :19:39.challenging role she is now taking on. Well, Huw, she is unflappable.

:19:40. > :19:43.She is completely professional and businesslike in all of her dealings.

:19:44. > :19:48.Don't forget, she's been this charge of MI5, the British security

:19:49. > :19:53.service. She's been in charge of a Home Office with 40,000 employees.

:19:54. > :19:56.And we know, those of us who follow Westminster affairs, that Home

:19:57. > :20:00.Office is sometimes considered something of a poisoned chalice. It

:20:01. > :20:06.is a very challenging department of Government. But she has dealt with

:20:07. > :20:09.those issues extremely competently. She is very highly regarded in the

:20:10. > :20:14.Home Office. Including by the Civil Service. She is deeply respected

:20:15. > :20:19.across the Conservative Party, which is why I think she's able to follow

:20:20. > :20:25.this unifying agenda. Because she also is respected on the benches

:20:26. > :20:31.opposite. We see someone who can deal with crises very well. She is

:20:32. > :20:36.unflappable. She is deeply experienced, and someone who can

:20:37. > :20:40.deal with any of these issues that may come up in the months and years

:20:41. > :20:46.ahead. Can I ask you to share maybe a bit of the behind the scenes

:20:47. > :20:49.knowledge of the last couple of days? Since the leadership race,

:20:50. > :20:53.which ended so abruptly earlier this week, what's Mrs May been doing over

:20:54. > :20:57.the last couple of days? How much of that has been to do with trying to

:20:58. > :21:00.get a plan into place so that when she step interests Downing Street

:21:01. > :21:05.today it is all happening straight away? I can tell you one little

:21:06. > :21:08.anecdote over the last couple of hours. I went past the Prime

:21:09. > :21:14.Minister, David Cameron's office, just a couple of hours ago. If I

:21:15. > :21:16.tell you the House of Commons staff had already taken down the sign

:21:17. > :21:21.saying David Cameron, Prime Minister, from outside his office

:21:22. > :21:28.inside the House of Commons, that's one clear indication of how sudden

:21:29. > :21:31.it is all over for the outgoing Prime Minister in David Cameron. But

:21:32. > :21:37.in terms of Theresa May's conduct over the last couple of days, it is,

:21:38. > :21:42.as it always is with her, entirely professional and businesslike. I saw

:21:43. > :21:45.her behind her desk at the Home Office yesterday, working on urgent

:21:46. > :21:50.Home Office papers. I know she was doing the same thing this morning

:21:51. > :21:56.and having meetings of one sort or another. She has a close circle of

:21:57. > :22:01.officials and others who work with her, and who've her trust. But she

:22:02. > :22:06.has a wide circle, a very wide circle of people who admire and

:22:07. > :22:12.respect her within both the Civil Service and within the whole

:22:13. > :22:16.political scene. So she is very dutiful in everything that she does.

:22:17. > :22:19.She sup late at night working on papers. Dealing with a very large

:22:20. > :22:25.number of meetings that she's had over the last couple of weeks. I've

:22:26. > :22:30.seen that nothing is allowed to interfere with her duties as Home

:22:31. > :22:35.Secretary. Papers have been going in, files have been going in to be

:22:36. > :22:39.signed, and meetings have had to take place. Nothing is allowed to

:22:40. > :22:41.interfere with her duty. She is someone who takes her

:22:42. > :22:48.responsibilities very seriously indeed. Michael Ellis, as ever, good

:22:49. > :22:52.to talk to you. Thank you so much for joining us. That was the

:22:53. > :22:59.Parliamentary Private Secretary to Theresa May. Who knows what role he

:23:00. > :23:03.might have in the new set-up here in Downing Street, and indeed across

:23:04. > :23:07.Whitehall. These are the images of Buckingham Palace this afternoon.

:23:08. > :23:14.This is where Theresa May, who has just arrived in the last ten minutes

:23:15. > :23:18.or so, for that audience with Her Majesty the Queen, where she'll be

:23:19. > :23:22.invited to form the next Government after David Cameron's departure.

:23:23. > :23:26.David Cameron set out what he saw as the main achievements of his

:23:27. > :23:30.Government over the past six years, and overshadowing everything the

:23:31. > :23:34.circumstances of his departure, which were ones he would never have

:23:35. > :23:39.wished upon himself, or indeed I suspect from his point of view on

:23:40. > :23:42.the country, because he made his view plain on the outcome of the

:23:43. > :23:46.referendum itself. Though of course he accepted the democratic verdict

:23:47. > :23:55.of the British people. Let's stay on the images while the audience is

:23:56. > :24:01.going on. We'll see Theresa May shortly. Laura Kuenssberg, first of

:24:02. > :24:05.all, before we see Mrs May emerging, a thought on Mr Cameron's final

:24:06. > :24:11.message in Downing Street? What I saw listening to him more than

:24:12. > :24:14.anything else is it is one of these big moments when we remember that

:24:15. > :24:18.politicians are human beings, bringing his children out for the

:24:19. > :24:22.first time to see the world's press, in the same way that Gordon Brown

:24:23. > :24:26.did, back in 2010. His voice slightly cracking with emotion.

:24:27. > :24:31.Politics is a hard life. People volunteer for it, but it is a

:24:32. > :24:34.difficult job, putting awful pressure on people you could see

:24:35. > :24:37.that on the faces of his children and his wife. It was an

:24:38. > :24:40.extraordinary moment. In terms of his political legacy, clear what he

:24:41. > :24:43.wanted to highlight. Equal marriage, controversial in the Tory Party, but

:24:44. > :24:48.that's changed things for many people. Sorting out two thirds of

:24:49. > :24:53.the deficit. The economy always at the heart. Not their original

:24:54. > :24:57.ambition but they would say it is significant progress. He wanted to

:24:58. > :25:02.delineate the things he feels are achievements before others write his

:25:03. > :25:07.legacy for him. As they are busily doing in any case. When we see Mrs

:25:08. > :25:11.May emerge in a short while, she'll make her statement here. We are

:25:12. > :25:14.expecting her to address the British people. What themes do you expect

:25:15. > :25:18.her to be underlining? Theresa May is no stranger to high office. She's

:25:19. > :25:23.been Home Secretary for six years. People know who she is, what she

:25:24. > :25:27.does, but they don't know much about her, or don't necessarily know what

:25:28. > :25:30.she is going to do. This is her first big national introduction.

:25:31. > :25:34.Everything we've heard from her since this began only a couple of

:25:35. > :25:37.short weeks ago has been about trying to bring people together, the

:25:38. > :25:42.Conservative Party but also the country. Time and again she said

:25:43. > :25:45.under her the Government will be a Government that represents

:25:46. > :25:51.everybody. That sounds something that is very lofty, very, very

:25:52. > :25:53.difficult to achieve. Particularly when there's extreme pressure on

:25:54. > :25:58.Government budgets. More than anything else her Government will

:25:59. > :26:01.still have a majority of only 12. However she wants to try to deal

:26:02. > :26:06.with the country's problems. However she wants to try to introduce new

:26:07. > :26:10.ideas of her own, they are going to have to get through her party at a

:26:11. > :26:15.time when there is plenty of people in her party who are grumpy, and

:26:16. > :26:20.they are quite prepared to work with each other if they don't like what

:26:21. > :26:24.she is suggesting. Laura, thank you for now. We'll talk in a while.

:26:25. > :26:27.We'll be following every step of the way back from Buckingham Palace to

:26:28. > :26:33.Downing Street when that happens. Let's join Sophie, who is there with

:26:34. > :26:39.some guests. Yes, there was applause as Theresa May and her husband,

:26:40. > :26:43.Philip May, swept in through the gates here at Buckingham Palace just

:26:44. > :26:47.over ten minutes ago. We've noticed already that the black vehicle she

:26:48. > :26:51.arrived in, seems to have been changed for a prime ministerial

:26:52. > :26:58.vehicle, which is sitting outside in the quad Raj there in the Palace,

:26:59. > :27:02.waiting to whisk her back down the Mall to Downing Street. Nicholas

:27:03. > :27:08.Witchell, it was an extremely efficient changeover. It was just

:27:09. > :27:13.seconds They almost collided with each other after the south centre

:27:14. > :27:22.gate of the Palace. One sensed that Mrs May's driver was going as slowly

:27:23. > :27:27.as possible going up bird cage walk. She had only one outrider going up

:27:28. > :27:31.to Buckingham Palace. And with her husband into the audience room, one

:27:32. > :27:37.must imagine by now she has been appointed Prime Minister. Minister.

:27:38. > :27:44.They arrived at 25 past 5. These are images of them arriving. 13 minutes

:27:45. > :27:48.ago, yes. These images of them just before 5.25pm. I imagine they will

:27:49. > :27:51.know that the Camerons still have not departed from Buckingham Palace.

:27:52. > :27:58.We were starting to wonder whether they had slipped out some rear exit

:27:59. > :28:02.from the Palace. But there they are making their way slowly, where upon

:28:03. > :28:08.the former Prime Minister came out, still with all of his police

:28:09. > :28:12.outriders. They very nearly did collide with each other there. But

:28:13. > :28:16.the whole procedure, the whole process is under way. The Queen will

:28:17. > :28:21.by now have invited her to form a Government. And it is as simple as

:28:22. > :28:26.that? Yes, there is no ceremony. There are no seals, no kissing of

:28:27. > :28:30.hands. The Queen will simply ask, are you in a position to form a

:28:31. > :28:33.Government? Recognising the criteria of the Prime Minister that it must

:28:34. > :28:36.be someone who commands the confidence of the House of Commons.

:28:37. > :28:39.If that person's answer is affirmative, then the Queen will

:28:40. > :28:43.invite that person to form a Government and clearly Theresa May

:28:44. > :28:46.as the leader of the largest party, the Conservative Party, is in a

:28:47. > :28:50.position to form a Government. One would imagine that Mr May will now

:28:51. > :28:55.have been invited into the audience room and this whole process of the

:28:56. > :29:00.Queen getting to know Theresa May rather better than she has had an

:29:01. > :29:03.opportunity to do whilst she's been Home Secretary will be under way.

:29:04. > :29:10.They don't know each other terribly well. As Home Secretary they have

:29:11. > :29:12.had meetings. They've met at lunch recently, after Privy Councils as

:29:13. > :29:20.Windsor Castle, but as Home Secretary she will not have known

:29:21. > :29:21.the Queen terribly well. With me is Vernon Bogdanor of King's College

:29:22. > :29:30.London. This is a huge moment for her

:29:31. > :29:35.personally, the moment that she will really know that she is stepping up

:29:36. > :29:39.and is leader, she is in charge of this country, and presumably you can

:29:40. > :29:43.never prepare yourself for that. Absolutely, however effective you

:29:44. > :29:48.have been as a departmental minister. Let me just show you,

:29:49. > :29:53.sorry to interrupt, we have got... The first image that we have,

:29:54. > :29:59.Theresa May curtsying to the Queen, presumably shortly after she was

:30:00. > :30:04.asked to be the next Prime Minister of this country. But as I say, a

:30:05. > :30:08.huge moment for her as well. I was about to say that however much you

:30:09. > :30:12.think you are prepared for it, you can never really be prepared for it.

:30:13. > :30:15.However successfully departmental minister you have been, as Prime

:30:16. > :30:19.Minister you have to deal with a whole range of issues, some of which

:30:20. > :30:24.you will not have been acquainted with before. In Theresa May's case,

:30:25. > :30:31.she has never held an economic portfolio in government or in

:30:32. > :30:33.opposition, and although she has had some connection with the European

:30:34. > :30:36.Union as Home Secretary, she has not had a foreign affairs position.

:30:37. > :30:39.These are the key issues of modern government, so there is no way to

:30:40. > :30:44.predict how well she will do until she has started the job. Back now to

:30:45. > :30:48.Downing Street, because Huw is there, and that is where Theresa May

:30:49. > :30:54.will be heading shortly after she leaves the Palace.

:30:55. > :30:59.Sophie, thanks very much, Laura Kuenssberg is with me, let stay on

:31:00. > :31:02.this image, because this is the most powerful statement we have had so

:31:03. > :31:06.far today, and before Mrs May turns up in Downing Street, this is the

:31:07. > :31:11.moment Theresa May becomes the new Prime Minister. Indeed, that is the

:31:12. > :31:15.image that tells us the deed is done, the Queen has extended her

:31:16. > :31:20.request to Theresa May to become the country's political leader, she has

:31:21. > :31:24.accepted, she has not, and one would assume the kissing up and ceremony

:31:25. > :31:28.that politicians have to indulge in at these kinds of audiences, and

:31:29. > :31:33.this will go around the world. -- the kissing of hands. We will see

:31:34. > :31:37.this time and again for years to come, a smile on the Queen's face,

:31:38. > :31:42.Theresa May looking overjoyed, this is the image, it has now happened,

:31:43. > :31:47.Theresa May is now the Prime Minister. And just to underline what

:31:48. > :31:52.remarkable fact we mentioned earlier, Mrs May is the 13th Prime

:31:53. > :31:58.Minister of the Queen's reign, and she was not born when the Queen

:31:59. > :32:02.ascended the throne. So just a fact, not the only one, Mr Cameron and Mr

:32:03. > :32:07.Blair were in the same category, but at the age of 59 anyway, Theresa May

:32:08. > :32:11.has become Prime Minister. That is the image of the afternoon so far,

:32:12. > :32:16.because Mrs May has now accepted the Queen's invitation. She has now left

:32:17. > :32:20.behind the Home Office, where she has been for the past six years.

:32:21. > :32:24.Let's talk to someone who also spent time at the Home Office and is

:32:25. > :32:29.leader of the Conservative Party, Michael Howard, Lord Howard, who

:32:30. > :32:35.joins us now, thank you for joining us, your thoughts on today's events

:32:36. > :32:39.so far. They have been rather momentous, Huw, an extraordinary

:32:40. > :32:43.day. I think David Cameron has been an extremely good Prime Minister,

:32:44. > :32:47.and in many ways I am sorry to see him go. I think Theresa May will

:32:48. > :32:53.also be a very popular and a very good Prime Minister. When she makes

:32:54. > :32:57.her statement, Michael, when she turns up in Downing Street, in a

:32:58. > :33:01.short while, maybe within the next 20 minutes, half an hour, what would

:33:02. > :33:06.you like to be underlining in terms of a philosophy that will underpin

:33:07. > :33:10.her time in Number Ten? Oh, I wouldn't dream of giving her any

:33:11. > :33:15.advice, Huw, she is her own woman, and she will be a very strong Prime

:33:16. > :33:22.Minister. She knows exactly what she wants to do, and she is the best

:33:23. > :33:31.person to articulate that. Sorry, I cannot hear you. OK, let's see, are

:33:32. > :33:37.you back with us now, Michael? Yes, I can hear you now. Thank you so

:33:38. > :33:41.much, well done for recovering! I am just wondering, let's turn the

:33:42. > :33:44.question around, on the question of handling British exit from the

:33:45. > :33:49.European Union, what is the message you would like to hear? Well, she

:33:50. > :33:53.has already said that Brexit means Brexit, she has been very clear

:33:54. > :33:58.about that, and of course that is the number one item on her agenda.

:33:59. > :34:03.And I have no doubt that that is going to take a lot of attention in

:34:04. > :34:08.the coming weeks. I personally think that the negotiation of our exit

:34:09. > :34:11.from the EU can be relatively simple and straightforward, but we will

:34:12. > :34:17.have to see how she plans to deal with that. From your experience of

:34:18. > :34:21.the Home Office, and you see how she has handled it over the last six

:34:22. > :34:26.years, what are the qualities, in your view, that she brings to this

:34:27. > :34:32.job at such a turbulent time? She is very steadfast, works extremely

:34:33. > :34:36.hard, she is on top of the detail, and I have had a number of things to

:34:37. > :34:39.do with the Home Office in the last few years, and the Home Office

:34:40. > :34:45.people have spoken very highly of her. I think she is a very strong

:34:46. > :34:51.woman, and she will be a very strong Prime Minister. And in your dealings

:34:52. > :34:54.yourself, Mr Howard, over the years, and just wondering again, because we

:34:55. > :34:58.hear so much about the fact that, you know, very few people know much

:34:59. > :35:03.about Mrs May, thinking about those millions of people watching this who

:35:04. > :35:07.do not know a lot about at all, what would you convey about the type of

:35:08. > :35:10.woman who is going to become Prime Minister? She is very

:35:11. > :35:15.straightforward, in many ways what you see is what you get, and there

:35:16. > :35:20.is no side to her, no silliness about her, she is straightforward

:35:21. > :35:24.and she will get on with the job. Michael Howard, good to talk to as

:35:25. > :35:29.ever, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Lord Howard, the

:35:30. > :35:34.former Conservative leader, former Home Secretary, giving his thoughts

:35:35. > :35:38.on Theresa May's arrival today as Prime Minister. Laura Kuenssberg is

:35:39. > :35:43.till with me, the audience, I am told, is just about to end at

:35:44. > :35:46.Buckingham Palace, if it has not ended already. We have seen the

:35:47. > :35:50.Prime Minister real car waiting, so this is the moment is now up for

:35:51. > :35:55.this return journey back towards Downing Street. -- Mrs May will have

:35:56. > :35:59.prepared the statement we are about to hear, but to reflect in this car,

:36:00. > :36:04.she will be reflecting on what is ahead of her. Indeed, and how

:36:05. > :36:08.quickly it has all happened. She had always been private about her

:36:09. > :36:12.ambition, but she has wanted to do this job for a number of years, and

:36:13. > :36:16.quietly, some might say stealthily, she had planned in some way for it,

:36:17. > :36:20.but you had not planned for it in like the way it has happened in the

:36:21. > :36:23.last couple of weeks. She was looking at a leadership contest over

:36:24. > :36:28.the summer that she helped very much she would win, time to develop her

:36:29. > :36:32.ideas perhaps, is certainly time to develop their plans, and now, in the

:36:33. > :36:36.next few moments, the nation will want to hear what she is all about,

:36:37. > :36:40.who is she really? She is someone who was well-known because she has

:36:41. > :36:45.been in charge for a long time, but not very much about is known. So no

:36:46. > :36:48.doubt right now she might just be wondering, how on earth all this

:36:49. > :36:53.happened, when three weeks ago this must have seemed like a very far-off

:36:54. > :36:57.possibility. The sense of urgency, in a way, I am just saying that

:36:58. > :37:00.because this audience, if it has just ended or is about to end, is

:37:01. > :37:05.significantly shorter than some audiences in the past, when the

:37:06. > :37:09.Queen has greeted an incoming Prime Minister. Gordon Brown was there for

:37:10. > :37:14.the best part of an hour. So maybe, let's not read too much into it, she

:37:15. > :37:19.is keen to get stuck into business. She always says that she just wants

:37:20. > :37:22.to get on with a job, but it might be wanting to hit the schedules of

:37:23. > :37:26.the television news programmes in time for family sitting down to

:37:27. > :37:30.watch tonight! Who knows? But there is a sense of urgency, Theresa May

:37:31. > :37:34.is not a politician who wants to do flash, she does not want to do

:37:35. > :37:38.gimmick, she is a politician who wants to sit down with the red

:37:39. > :37:42.boxes, go through the details, go through the arrogance, come to a

:37:43. > :37:48.decision, perhaps after some time, but once she has reached that

:37:49. > :37:51.decision, she is very firm about it. -- go through the arguments. She was

:37:52. > :37:57.affectionately described by Ken Clarke, the former Tory Chancellor,

:37:58. > :38:00.as being a bloody difficult woman. She responded quite cleverly by

:38:01. > :38:04.saying, yes, the European Union are about to find out that I am a bloody

:38:05. > :38:09.difficult woman, playing that do a strength. As we see the cars waiting

:38:10. > :38:12.for her to come down the steps inside the courtyard of Buckingham

:38:13. > :38:18.Palace, Theresa May is someone who is famed for caution. In Number Ten,

:38:19. > :38:22.you have to decide, and offer new have to decide very, very quickly,

:38:23. > :38:29.and it may well be that is a real gear shift for Theresa May. You

:38:30. > :38:33.cannot be in a bunker, you have to be at there, although I think she

:38:34. > :38:37.will take a different attitude to how much he pops up in public. I do

:38:38. > :38:40.not think we will see her giving interviews celebrating the success

:38:41. > :38:45.of Andy Murray at Wimbledon or talking about her favourite football

:38:46. > :38:49.team, I think she will guard profile very carefully, and perhaps pop up

:38:50. > :38:53.rather more readily than Prime Ministers of recent years. It will

:38:54. > :38:57.be very interesting, Laura, not just to gauge the tone of this address

:38:58. > :39:02.coming up in Downing Street, once Mrs May has left Buckingham Palace,

:39:03. > :39:05.but also to see if there are any pointers very soon as to who will be

:39:06. > :39:09.holding some of the great offices in government, Home Secretary, Foreign

:39:10. > :39:13.Secretary, such a crucial job when you think of what is ahead in these

:39:14. > :39:17.negotiations with the European Union, and of course Chancellor of

:39:18. > :39:22.the Exchequer, when you think of the potential economic impact of the

:39:23. > :39:26.Brexit vote, so very important appointments, even more than usual.

:39:27. > :39:30.Indeed they always are, but perhaps more than ever, for many decades, a

:39:31. > :39:34.few politicians have said to me recently, whoever becomes the next

:39:35. > :39:41.Prime Minister is taking on a set of challenges that is the greatest

:39:42. > :39:43.since just after the war. Now, not everybody would agree with that

:39:44. > :39:46.analysis, but smart people around here believe that to be the case. In

:39:47. > :39:53.the last couple of hours, I have talked to some of the ministers who

:39:54. > :39:56.were waiting nervously by the phone, at about four 30p and those calls

:39:57. > :40:03.have not been made, but there has been speculation about who will fill

:40:04. > :40:07.those vacancies. Lots of smiles, very cheerful! Huge smiles on both

:40:08. > :40:11.of their faces. I suppose Theresa May has been a Privy Councillor for

:40:12. > :40:15.a long time, they will have met on a lot of occasions, this will not have

:40:16. > :40:18.been the type of encounter when they are meeting for the first time,

:40:19. > :40:21.having the opportunity to have a proper conversation for the first

:40:22. > :40:28.time. But striking how much they are both looking to be enjoying that

:40:29. > :40:32.moment very much indeed. So those are the scenes in Buckingham Palace

:40:33. > :40:35.just a few minutes ago, these images have just been released by the

:40:36. > :40:41.Buckingham Palace staff, this first audience for Mrs May as Prime

:40:42. > :40:45.Minister at Buckingham Palace. Back here in Downing Street, I am bound

:40:46. > :40:49.to say, where Laura is with me, we have had another little movement of

:40:50. > :40:52.the furniture, because as the cars are ready in Buckingham Palace for

:40:53. > :40:57.the departure, everything will now be getting ready for the statement,

:40:58. > :41:01.and the podium is back in place. The podium is out, that is the moment

:41:02. > :41:05.that the press, Crolla of the most, after hours of waiting, the thing

:41:06. > :41:13.everyone has been standing around for is about to happen. -- the press

:41:14. > :41:16.corps love the most. And somebody gets a chance to test the microphone

:41:17. > :41:21.and the camera shots. Given the short distance we are away from

:41:22. > :41:24.Buckingham Palace, it will only be a matter of minutes now before we hear

:41:25. > :41:29.from Theresa May for the first time in her new job. What I do not think

:41:30. > :41:33.we will hear is announcements of who is going to be part of their top

:41:34. > :41:36.team, but we do expect that by later this evening we will have an idea of

:41:37. > :41:41.certainly the main jobs, although who knows, she may well surprise us

:41:42. > :41:45.and give us some of the details this afternoon, but that would be

:41:46. > :41:50.extremely unusual. This moment is about her introduction to voters

:41:51. > :41:54.who, do not forget, have not chosen her. Tory MPs expressed a very clear

:41:55. > :41:58.preference, Tory members did not even be on it, because others

:41:59. > :42:02.dropped out, but the general public have not had a chance to have their

:42:03. > :42:07.say and Theresa May. That may well be on a mind at this afternoon. This

:42:08. > :42:11.is the scene at Buckingham Palace, and the Prime Minister's car is

:42:12. > :42:15.ready to do leave, and by Prime Minister I mean Theresa May, not

:42:16. > :42:22.David Cameron. He has resigned in the past power, the Queen has

:42:23. > :42:26.accepted his resignation, and she has invited Theresa May to form the

:42:27. > :42:31.next government. The palace has confirmed that she has accepted, and

:42:32. > :42:35.the official car is now ready to leave, we expect Mrs May to emerge

:42:36. > :42:38.from Buckingham Palace within the next minute or so, because

:42:39. > :42:43.everything is now ready here in Downing Street for the new Prime

:42:44. > :42:47.Minister's arrival, and for the statement to be made in Downing

:42:48. > :42:50.Street before Mrs May goes into Number Ten to start the business of

:42:51. > :42:55.running this government. The audience took place within the past

:42:56. > :42:59.20 minutes or so, lots of smiles, the Queen listening to what Mrs May

:43:00. > :43:03.had to say, Mrs May accepting the invitation from Her Majesty to form

:43:04. > :43:09.this government, the 13th Prime Minister, by the way, of the Queen's

:43:10. > :43:13.reign, starting with Winston Churchill back in 1951, when the

:43:14. > :43:16.Queen came to the throne, followed by Sir Anthony Eden, Harold

:43:17. > :43:22.Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, for less than a year, Harold Wilson,

:43:23. > :43:26.Edward Heath, Harold Wilson again, then James Callaghan in 1976,

:43:27. > :43:32.followed of course by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, then John Major,

:43:33. > :43:36.and then Tony Blair, and then Gordon Brown, and then David Cameron, who

:43:37. > :43:38.has resigned today. So there you have the run of Prime Ministers of

:43:39. > :43:47.the Queen's reign. As we expect Mrs May's departure

:43:48. > :43:52.from Buckingham Palace, let's join Sophie once again. Yes, we are still

:43:53. > :43:56.waiting. Theresa May, who has been inside the Palace now for just over

:43:57. > :44:03.half an hour. We've seen those images of her with the Queen. It is

:44:04. > :44:08.a new thing for us to see what happens when the Queen invites the

:44:09. > :44:13.next Prime Minister to lead country. It started with David Cameron. The

:44:14. > :44:20.digital revolution. Thank goodness for digital cameras. They can get

:44:21. > :44:26.the images out so quickly. The car has changed there. There are the

:44:27. > :44:31.images from the audience room of Prime Minister May. The vehicle

:44:32. > :44:37.outside is no longer the black BMW in which she arrived as Home

:44:38. > :44:40.Secretary, but it is now a silver Jaguar in which she will leave as

:44:41. > :44:47.Prime Minister in a few moments. It is half an hour, so they are getting

:44:48. > :44:52.to know each other. An opportunity for both of them to get the measure

:44:53. > :44:56.of both of them. Vernon Bogdanor of King's College London. We have now

:44:57. > :45:02.our 13th Prime Minister. What a task in hand she has. She takes office in

:45:03. > :45:06.very turbulent times indeed. She is there because of a popular

:45:07. > :45:11.insurgency in the Government in the recent EU referendum. There's been

:45:12. > :45:15.nothing like it, to compare it with any previous episodes in British

:45:16. > :45:20.politics. Perhaps 1945 after the war, when the public decided not to

:45:21. > :45:24.re-elect Winston Churchill but to elect a Labour Government instead.

:45:25. > :45:29.I'm not comparing David Cameron with Churchill. She faces the problem

:45:30. > :45:34.that she has got to ensure Brexit though she was in the Remain car.

:45:35. > :45:39.She has said that Brexit means Brexit, but the Becks it ear MPs

:45:40. > :45:43.will be scrutinising her very carefully. She comes to power

:45:44. > :45:51.through a Coronation, as Gordon Brown did in 2007. She wanted a

:45:52. > :45:57.contest, not a Coronation, but Andrea Leadsom, the other candidate,

:45:58. > :46:00.dropped out. Some people will say, she doesn't have proper legitimacy,

:46:01. > :46:04.perhaps call a general election to find out what the people think. We

:46:05. > :46:06.now know as a result of the referendum, what happens outside

:46:07. > :46:10.Parliament is as important inside. And there we are the new Prime

:46:11. > :46:14.Minister, the first time we have seen Theresa May as Prime Minister

:46:15. > :46:21.of the United Kingdom, stepping into the car alongside her husband,

:46:22. > :46:27.Philip May. Being driven out of the quadrangle at Buckingham Palace.

:46:28. > :46:33.Just oh half an hour she dump just over half an hour she spent with the

:46:34. > :46:36.Queen. A moment of history as she passes through the forecourt at

:46:37. > :46:40.Buckingham Palace in front of a rather small crowd, it has to be

:46:41. > :46:46.said. There was applause when she swept in. No doubt there'll be

:46:47. > :46:50.applause as she leaves this Palace in the next few seconds. And after

:46:51. > :46:55.the pleasantries with the Queen, a certain amount of business I'm sure

:46:56. > :46:58.was discussed. Very much straight down to work. I'm waiting for the

:46:59. > :47:02.statement from Buckingham Palace, which I'm sure they'll be issuing

:47:03. > :47:08.within the next few moments confirming the events that we know

:47:09. > :47:14.have taken place there. The Prime Ministerial motorcade making its way

:47:15. > :47:17.down the mall. The route which David Cameron took when he arrived here at

:47:18. > :47:22.Buckingham Palace. We do now have a statement from the Palace. Yes, the

:47:23. > :47:26.Queen received an audience, the right honourable Theresa May MP this

:47:27. > :47:30.evening and requested her to form a new administration. The right

:47:31. > :47:34.honourable Theresa May accepted Her Majesty's offer and kissed hands

:47:35. > :47:39.upon her appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the

:47:40. > :47:43.Treasury. Theresa May, the new Prime Minister, heads down the Mall

:47:44. > :47:49.towards Downing Street. Let's go there to Huw.

:47:50. > :47:55.The new Prime Minister making her way along the Mall. Down towards

:47:56. > :48:01.Admiralty Arch, and along to Downing Street, where there's a vast crowd

:48:02. > :48:07.of the world's media waiting to put on record her transition from Home

:48:08. > :48:11.Secretary to Prime Minister. Laura Kuenssberg is still with me. This is

:48:12. > :48:17.the moment, Laura, where you just wonder what the that's are in that

:48:18. > :48:23.prime ministerial car. Indeed, what is she saying to Philip May, her

:48:24. > :48:28.husband. What are they talking about? What are they wondering

:48:29. > :48:35.about. She's got at least three-and-a-half years, she says, if

:48:36. > :48:44.there is not a general election until 2020. The law changed under

:48:45. > :48:48.the coalition to have the fixed Parliaments Act. She sees it...

:48:49. > :48:55.PROBLEM WITH SOUND. Close close to her tell me she has the bulk of the

:48:56. > :49:03.time to do with it what her priorities are. What she decides to

:49:04. > :49:10.do. She wants to provide continuity. She is all about stability, safe

:49:11. > :49:12.pair of hands. But at the same time a huge political opportunity,

:49:13. > :49:15.three-and-a-half years to stamp her mark on Government, to stamp her

:49:16. > :49:19.mark on the country. That might give us some clues this the reshuffle.

:49:20. > :49:25.There have been suggestions it will be steady as she goes. A lot of

:49:26. > :49:31.people might stay this their jobs. I think at the top of Government some

:49:32. > :49:36.of the big names will be shipped out. She will be keen to say this is

:49:37. > :49:38.her administration. It is not a substitute for things gone wrong

:49:39. > :49:44.when David Cameron lost his gamble on the referendum.

:49:45. > :49:49.They are passing the old Agricultural building, the Wales

:49:50. > :49:53.Office and the Scotland Office, getting ready to turn right into

:49:54. > :49:59.Downing Street. The gates have been opened. There's a crowd outside

:50:00. > :50:04.wanting to see this historic event. Theresa May is within seconds of

:50:05. > :50:09.entering Downing Street as the new Prime Minister of the United

:50:10. > :50:14.Kingdom. Past the Cabinet Office, where so much of the workings of

:50:15. > :50:18.Government take place. There we have the crowd on the corner. We can see

:50:19. > :50:23.the outriders entering Downing Street right now. As the new Prime

:50:24. > :50:37.Minister sweeps into Downing Street. Here we are on the 13th July 2016,

:50:38. > :50:41.and Theresa May is to become the 54th Prime Minister in British

:50:42. > :50:48.history, the second woman to cross the threshold of Downing Street as

:50:49. > :50:52.Prime Minister. 37 years after Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May

:50:53. > :51:03.acknowledges the presence of so many journalists and camera people.

:51:04. > :51:12.Knowing these knowing these images will go around the world. She is

:51:13. > :51:17.accompanied by her husband, Philip. I have just been to Buckingham

:51:18. > :51:23.Palace, where Her Majesty the Queen has asked me to form a new

:51:24. > :51:30.Government. And I accepted. In David Cameron, I follow in the footsteps

:51:31. > :51:34.of a great, modern Prime Minister. Under David's leadership, the

:51:35. > :51:37.Government stabilised the economy, reduced the Budget deficit, and

:51:38. > :51:43.helped more people into work than ever before. But David's true legacy

:51:44. > :51:48.is not about the economy, but about social justice. From the

:51:49. > :51:55.introduction of same sex marriage to taking people on low wages out of

:51:56. > :52:00.income tax altogether, David Cameron has led a one-nation Government, and

:52:01. > :52:06.it is in that spirit that I also plan to lead. Because not everybody

:52:07. > :52:11.knows this, but the full title of my party is the Conservative and

:52:12. > :52:18.Unionist Party. And that word unionist is very important to me. It

:52:19. > :52:21.means we believe in the union, the precious precious bond between

:52:22. > :52:26.England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But it means

:52:27. > :52:31.something else that is just as important. It means we believe in a

:52:32. > :52:37.union, not just between the nations of the United Kingdom, but between

:52:38. > :52:44.all of our citizens. Every one of us, whoever we are, and wherever

:52:45. > :52:49.we're from. That means fighting against the burning injustice that

:52:50. > :52:54.if you're born poor you will die on average nine years earlier than

:52:55. > :52:57.others. If you are black you are treated more harshly by the criminal

:52:58. > :53:00.gistis system than if you are white. If you are a white working class boy

:53:01. > :53:04.you are less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university.

:53:05. > :53:08.If you are at a state school, you are less likely to reach the top

:53:09. > :53:13.professions than if you are educated privately. If you are a woman, you

:53:14. > :53:18.will earn less than a man. If you suffer from mental health problems,

:53:19. > :53:22.there's not enough help to hand. If you're young, you will find it

:53:23. > :53:28.harder than ever before to own your own home. But the mission to make

:53:29. > :53:32.Britain a country that works for everyone means more than fighting

:53:33. > :53:36.thins justices. If you're from an ordinary working class family, life

:53:37. > :53:39.is much harder than many people in Westminster realise. You have a job

:53:40. > :53:43.but you don't always have job security. You have your own home,

:53:44. > :53:47.but you worry about paying the mortgage. You can just about manage,

:53:48. > :53:54.but you worry about the cost of living and getting your kids into a

:53:55. > :53:59.good school. If you're one of those families, if you're just managing, I

:54:00. > :54:03.want to address you directly. I know you're working around the clock, I

:54:04. > :54:09.know you're doing your best, and I know that sometimes life can be a

:54:10. > :54:15.struggle. But Government I lead will be driven not by the interests of

:54:16. > :54:19.the privileged few by by yours. We will do everything we can to give

:54:20. > :54:25.you more control over your lives. When we take the big calls, we'll

:54:26. > :54:30.think not of the powerful but you. When we pass new laws, we'll listen

:54:31. > :54:37.not to the mighty but to you. When it comes to taxes, we'll prioritise

:54:38. > :54:41.not the wealthy but you. When it comes to opportunity, we won't

:54:42. > :54:44.entrench the advantages of the fortnight few. We'll do everything

:54:45. > :54:51.we can to help anybody, whatever your background, to go as far as

:54:52. > :54:56.your talents will take you. We are link through an important moment in

:54:57. > :55:01.our country's history. Following the referendum, we face a time of great

:55:02. > :55:06.national change. And I know, because we're Great Britain, that we will

:55:07. > :55:11.rise to the challenge. As we leave the European Union, we will forge a

:55:12. > :55:17.bold new positive role for ourselves in the world. And we will make

:55:18. > :55:23.Britain a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one

:55:24. > :55:37.of us. That will be the mission of the Government I lead, and together

:55:38. > :55:46.we will build a better Britain. A very clear statement of intent. By

:55:47. > :55:54.Theresa May. She now steps into 10 Downing Street with her husband

:55:55. > :55:59.Philip, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Succeeding David

:56:00. > :56:04.Cameron at the age of 59, becoming the second female Prime Minister in

:56:05. > :56:12.British history. It is an extraordinary moment. Laura

:56:13. > :56:17.Kuenssberg is with me. To reflect on this moment, Laura... Well, a very

:56:18. > :56:21.strong statement from Theresa May about her intentions as a

:56:22. > :56:25.Conservative Prime Minister. Starting as she just goes into

:56:26. > :56:29.Number Ten. You can probably hear the traditional applause from the

:56:30. > :56:33.staff inside Number Ten, who clap in Prime Ministers as they arrive. But

:56:34. > :56:37.a statement really of very bold intent from a Conservative Prime

:56:38. > :56:41.Minister, talking of social justice, a message, she said, she was sending

:56:42. > :56:47.directly to people around the country who may be just managing.

:56:48. > :56:52.Repeatedly she directly said, we will think of you. I'm thinking of

:56:53. > :56:56.you. This was not something from a traditional Conservative. Not at

:56:57. > :57:00.all. It was almost a speech that could have been delivered by a very

:57:01. > :57:06.modernising Prime Minister from a very different party. Perhaps maybe

:57:07. > :57:11.deliberately, but there were phrases, sentiments in there, which

:57:12. > :57:15.could have been delivered in a different idea by Tony Blair. The

:57:16. > :57:18.idea that if you work hard, we will look after you. Clear messages from

:57:19. > :57:23.Theresa May. This framework to use the full title of the Tory party,

:57:24. > :57:29.the Conservative and Unionist Party. Not just about the union between

:57:30. > :57:31.Scotland and England, which she spoke of passionately. Very

:57:32. > :57:35.interesting in itself given what's going on with that. But the unionist

:57:36. > :57:40.sentiment of the country being a union between all of its citizens.

:57:41. > :57:44.But I wonder, harks given how difficult the political context is,

:57:45. > :57:49.loud chants from protesters at the end of Downing Street. A little hint

:57:50. > :57:53.of many of the political dangers to come. She looked confident, a very

:57:54. > :57:58.strong message, but this is not going to be an easy ride. It is not

:57:59. > :58:02.going to be an easy ride. One wonders now, she is being introduced

:58:03. > :58:06.to it's staff there, the Cabinet Secretary, the head of the Civil

:58:07. > :58:08.Service, taking her through the most important element, the security

:58:09. > :58:13.briefing. That's happening right now in Downing Street. And there'll be

:58:14. > :58:17.big decisions about how fills these big posts. When can we expect news

:58:18. > :58:22.on that? I am expecting the first big names this evening. Foreign

:58:23. > :58:25.Secretary, Chancellor, Home Secretary, and potentially who is

:58:26. > :58:29.going be in charge of the renegotiations of our position

:58:30. > :58:34.within the European Union? How do we leave the EU? How is that all going

:58:35. > :58:38.to work? Now, as with reshuffles, it may not go to plan, but that's the

:58:39. > :58:41.timetable we are expecting. With the rest of the Cabinet positions being

:58:42. > :58:51.filled tomorrow. Because those names will tell us a great deal about the

:58:52. > :58:57.stance she wants to take in some of these big areas.

:58:58. > :59:02.The selection of the team will be very important, and Westminster has

:59:03. > :59:08.been consumed with the guessing game. The wide expectation from the

:59:09. > :59:11.second most important job is that Philip Hammond, currently the

:59:12. > :59:16.Foreign Secretary, appears to be the most likely candidate to move in

:59:17. > :59:22.next door, to Number 11. Another safe pair of hands? Yes, and one of

:59:23. > :59:25.the pupil additions thought to be genuinely close to Theresa May.

:59:26. > :59:29.Their constituencies are not that far from each other, they have known

:59:30. > :59:33.each other for a long time, very much in that modus operandi, I

:59:34. > :59:37.suppose, somebody who thinks about decisions carefully, makes them and

:59:38. > :59:41.sticks to them. From that kind of part of the Conservative Party, in

:59:42. > :59:45.the middle but not necessarily someone who is seen as radical or

:59:46. > :59:49.flash. But there was quite a radical note to that speech, maybe not what

:59:50. > :59:54.everybody had been expecting. We will talk a bit later, but thanks

:59:55. > :59:59.very much for now. In a moment, Fiona will be here with the BBC News

:00:00. > :00:04.At Six, but what an afternoon. We have at David Cameron resigning and

:00:05. > :00:07.Theresa May arriving in the past few minutes in Downing Street, she is

:00:08. > :00:11.now inside Number Ten as Britain's new Prime Minister with a clear

:00:12. > :00:14.statement of intent about social justice and some of the principles

:00:15. > :00:20.that will inform her premiership. It has been quite a day, but there are

:00:21. > :00:24.very, very interesting and possibly tense and challenging times ahead. I

:00:25. > :00:32.will leave you with some of the great images of the day, thank you

:00:33. > :00:38.for watching, goodbye for now. What next, Prime Minister? Other

:00:39. > :00:41.than one meeting this afternoon with Her Majesty The Queen, the diary for

:00:42. > :00:47.the rest of my day is remarkably light. There are lots of leadership

:00:48. > :00:55.roles opening, there is the England football team... There is Top

:00:56. > :00:59.Gear... Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After

:01:00. > :01:00.all, as I once said, I was the future once.

:01:01. > :01:13.APPLAUSE It has been the greatest honour of

:01:14. > :01:15.my life to serve our country as Prime Minister over these last six

:01:16. > :01:39.years. APPLAUSE

:01:40. > :01:45.The Government highly it will be driven not by the interests of the

:01:46. > :01:47.privileged few, but by yours. We will do everything we can to give

:01:48. > :01:55.you more control over your lives. You're in cold water,

:01:56. > :01:56.you're not going to last long. Meet the brave volunteers

:01:57. > :02:00.risking their lives to save others. One minute,

:02:01. > :02:02.you're just an ordinary person. The next minute,

:02:03. > :02:05.you're a lifeboat crew member.