Daily Politics Special

:00:07. > :00:08.It's been 26 years since Britain's first woman

:00:09. > :00:17.Today our second woman Prime Minister will begin her tenure.

:00:18. > :00:19.The task facing Theresa May is no less daunting: to heal

:00:20. > :00:22.the wounds in her party, unite the country and to chart

:00:23. > :00:59.the future for Britain outside the EU.

:01:00. > :01:02.Morning folks - welcome to the Daily Politics.

:01:03. > :01:05.So we say farewell Prime Minister Cameron,

:01:06. > :01:09.Theresa May will enter Downing Street later

:01:10. > :01:14.She has promised a "bold positive vision" for a country that works

:01:15. > :01:24.The But what does that mean and what will it look like?

:01:25. > :01:27.David Cameron left Downing Street earlier this morning to head over

:01:28. > :01:29.to the House of Commons for his final Prime

:01:30. > :01:33.We'll have all the action live from midday.

:01:34. > :01:36.Jeremy Corbyn WILL automatically be on the ballot for the Labour

:01:37. > :01:40.Meanwhile a new contender - Owen Smith - says he will also

:01:41. > :01:48.And I'm in the central lobby of the Houses of Parliament

:01:49. > :01:57.getting all the reaction from the key political players.

:01:58. > :02:01.All that in the next hour and a half and joining us for this historic

:02:02. > :02:03.occasion are the current Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa

:02:04. > :02:05.Villiers, and the Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon.

:02:06. > :02:22.Now, it's a busy day ahead here in Westminster.

:02:23. > :02:28.Prime Minister left demonstrate a while ago for his final visit to the

:02:29. > :02:34.Commons as Prime Minister for PMQ 's, that is coming live at noon. Mr

:02:35. > :02:38.Cameron was the youngest Prime Minister for 198 years, he leaves

:02:39. > :02:41.office still under the age of 50 and has been replaced by an older woman,

:02:42. > :02:47.Theresa May is 59. She has ruled out a snap election, and that is

:02:48. > :02:53.probably the last thing that Labour would want at this moment anyway. We

:02:54. > :02:58.expect that the Prime Minister, when he has said his goodbyes in the

:02:59. > :03:03.Commons, to go back to Downing Street and leave the palace at

:03:04. > :03:09.around 5pm tonight, when he gets to the palace he informs the Queen of

:03:10. > :03:12.his formal resignation. He is then no longer Prime Minister. Shortly

:03:13. > :03:18.after that, Theresa May will be taken to the palace to do the

:03:19. > :03:21.traditional kissing of hands, a symbolic signal that this is the new

:03:22. > :03:25.Prime Minister. When she leaves Buckingham Palace to head to Downing

:03:26. > :03:33.Street, she will be the Prime Minister of the UK. She will go back

:03:34. > :03:37.to Downing Street and we expect her there to say a few words before she

:03:38. > :03:44.goes through that famous door. A busy and historic day here in

:03:45. > :03:51.Westminster. Lots to cover. The BBC News Channel and BBC One will keep

:03:52. > :03:57.you up-to-date. Jo Coburn is in the central lobby and she will be doing

:03:58. > :04:05.a number of interviews all day. Let's hear what she has got to say.

:04:06. > :04:11.It's ever meant to stay here, even more packed in central lobby than it

:04:12. > :04:14.normally is for Prime Minister's Questions, because it is David

:04:15. > :04:22.Cameron first-macro final session. Let's try and get a sense of the

:04:23. > :04:28.occasion with Justine Greening. It is historic and it is the end of the

:04:29. > :04:34.camera and Eire. He has his final PMQs, he has always been very good

:04:35. > :04:38.at them, it would be interesting to see how he handles today's session.

:04:39. > :04:44.He can be really proud of what he has achieved, I think, turning the

:04:45. > :04:49.country round from bankruptcy, all sorts of opportunities for young

:04:50. > :04:54.people, more women in the workplace than ever, but a real sense of

:04:55. > :04:58.actually what is ahead of us now, a day when Theresa May will walk into

:04:59. > :05:06.number ten. Will her government be radically different in style and

:05:07. > :05:12.substance to David Cameron's? I think you will see a condition of

:05:13. > :05:18.delivering the manifesto which we were elected to carry out last year,

:05:19. > :05:25.and bringing her style and priorities to this government. What

:05:26. > :05:28.are those? For someone like myself, coming from an ordinary background

:05:29. > :05:35.in Rotherham, it's about wherever you start in can get to the top and

:05:36. > :05:39.fulfil your potential. Then to some of the other areas she has focused

:05:40. > :05:44.on, ending forced marriage, FGM, domestic violence, the reason has

:05:45. > :05:48.always been a very tough Home Secretary but when she sees things

:05:49. > :05:53.that are injustices that she doesn't accept, she will set out to change

:05:54. > :06:04.them. Will her government at the top table... I certainly hope it will

:06:05. > :06:11.show a lot of the great women we have got in our party. 50% Cabinet?

:06:12. > :06:15.I think she will pull forward more women commit up to her witty and she

:06:16. > :06:18.wants but I hope there are a lot of the great women, people like Karen

:06:19. > :06:24.Bradley who have been fantastic in the Home Office, even people like

:06:25. > :06:31.Anne Milton, they great colleagues to work with and have a real role to

:06:32. > :06:37.play in these coming years for the Conservative government. I will let

:06:38. > :06:42.you take your place, enjoy the last session for David Cameron. You will

:06:43. > :06:50.be returning to central lobby later and I will talk to more of the key

:06:51. > :07:01.players. There is never enough room for all of them at PMQs. The reason

:07:02. > :07:07.the May government be different in policy? I think she will map out her

:07:08. > :07:12.Baghram, they will be a lot of consistency because the reason, like

:07:13. > :07:16.David Cameron, is driven by the opportunity to improve life chances,

:07:17. > :07:22.to make sure we do all we can to back aspiration, ensure everyone has

:07:23. > :07:26.the potential... Is able to fulfil their politician. But every

:07:27. > :07:33.politician I've ever heard talks about that. Nobody is against that.

:07:34. > :07:37.How will the government differ? She is obvious they day to focus on the

:07:38. > :07:43.big challenges we have of building more homes for people to buy and

:07:44. > :07:47.rent, ensuring we continue with our form of the welfare system, to back

:07:48. > :07:51.those who work, ensuring we do everything to create the best

:07:52. > :07:55.education system in the world. How it in that different from what they

:07:56. > :07:58.David Cameron government says he has been trying to do? He has been tried

:07:59. > :08:06.to build more homes, not very successfully, where has the

:08:07. > :08:11.difference? There was consistency but also the opportunities to Reza

:08:12. > :08:16.has as Prime Minister relate to our decision to leave the EU, the

:08:17. > :08:20.research potential in terms of new trade deals with countries around

:08:21. > :08:23.the world, a range of opportunities that will not open to David

:08:24. > :08:28.Cameron's government and I'm sure she will seize them with enthusiasm.

:08:29. > :08:34.Are you a principle about Theresa May as promised? When your party

:08:35. > :08:40.sort itself out, will she be a formidable adversary as PM? The real

:08:41. > :08:43.challenge for her, quite rightly people are celebrating the fact we

:08:44. > :08:48.have our second female Prime Minister but the real challenge is

:08:49. > :08:52.to pursue policies which don't personally adversely affect women

:08:53. > :08:57.because the hostility and cuts agenda the government has pursued

:08:58. > :09:01.has hit women. -- the austerity. But she doesn't have an easy job, she

:09:02. > :09:04.has inherited an economy which is not in the good position George

:09:05. > :09:11.Osborne wished it to be, so it won't be an easy ride. Maybe not but is

:09:12. > :09:14.Labour principle about her? She will have a fresh start, she will have a

:09:15. > :09:20.honeymoon with the party, maybe even with the country she was "A strong

:09:21. > :09:27.position compared to Labour. The task for Labour is to unite, face

:09:28. > :09:29.outwards and look forward to as putting a positive labour case to

:09:30. > :09:33.the country rather than worrying about the Conservative Party. We

:09:34. > :09:35.welcome to that. While the Tories look to unite

:09:36. > :09:37.around their new leader, Theresa May, the Labour

:09:38. > :09:39.Party is in turmoil. Last night, the party's ruling

:09:40. > :09:41.executive narrowly voted to put Jeremy Corbyn's name on the upcoming

:09:42. > :09:44.leadership ballot, without him That has angered many Labour MPs,

:09:45. > :09:50.the vast majority of whom are openly After the decision was reached

:09:51. > :09:57.by the National Executive Committee, Delighted to say the Labour Party

:09:58. > :10:06.National Executive has decided that an incumbent is automatically

:10:07. > :10:10.on the ballot paper, And we will be campaigning

:10:11. > :10:19.on all the things that matter - the inequality and poverty that

:10:20. > :10:22.exists in this country, the need to end the privatisation

:10:23. > :10:25.of our National Health Service, the need to give real hope

:10:26. > :10:47.and opportunity to young people That was sparked off by Angela

:10:48. > :10:53.Eagle, who has already launched her challenge for the top job. This

:10:54. > :10:58.morning a second Labour MP threw his hat into the ring.

:10:59. > :11:00.The former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith said

:11:01. > :11:03.he would be a radical and credible leader who could take

:11:04. > :11:08.Because I think the Labour Party is in grave peril right now.

:11:09. > :11:12.There is a danger we are going to split and, if we were to split,

:11:13. > :11:15.that would be a disaster for working people, because the Labour Party has

:11:16. > :11:18.been the greatest vehicle for good for working people in this country

:11:19. > :11:21.for a century and we cannot afford to allow it to fall by the wayside.

:11:22. > :11:25.If I get to lead this party, we will be a credible but radical

:11:26. > :11:30.We will be a powerful opposition to a Tory government that has not

:11:31. > :11:39.left Britain stronger but has left Britain weaker in oh, so many ways.

:11:40. > :11:45.Owen Smith, one of two to challenge Jeremy Corbyn, though I learned

:11:46. > :11:50.there may be moves to whittle the challenge is down to one. This is

:11:51. > :11:55.going to be a pretty nasty, personal leadership election, isn't it? It

:11:56. > :12:00.shouldn't be and I hope it's not. But it's going to be. I'm really

:12:01. > :12:06.glad that they and democratic attempt to deny Labour Party members

:12:07. > :12:08.the length and breadth of the country of their fair and just right

:12:09. > :12:14.to choose whichever leader they want has failed, but as Jeremy Corbyn has

:12:15. > :12:18.said, this can't be nasty, it can't be divisive and it can't be

:12:19. > :12:23.personal, let's concentrate on the issues. Let's look at what happened

:12:24. > :12:27.at a Corbin rally in Kentish Town, last night. This is the shadow

:12:28. > :12:29.Treasury Chancellor. The only good thing about it -

:12:30. > :12:48.as plotters, they're BLEEP useless. So, John McDonnell, the number two

:12:49. > :12:57.in your party. Calling Labour MPs conniving and plotting. And not to

:12:58. > :13:02.use the full exclusive, useless. What bit is the kind, gentler

:13:03. > :13:06.politics about that? It was some sort of comedy Valley last night,

:13:07. > :13:11.it's not a question of whether he is a good comedian, it is about whether

:13:12. > :13:15.the positive, and the austerity agenda we can forward. What I will

:13:16. > :13:20.say generally is its time for all Labour MPs to calm down, take a deep

:13:21. > :13:25.breath, stop infighting, support whoever you wish in the leadership

:13:26. > :13:29.campaign, campaign hard for them. And then focus on the task for the

:13:30. > :13:34.Labour Party, which is to hold this Conservative government to account.

:13:35. > :13:41.It wasn't just John McDonnell last night, whether he's a comedian or

:13:42. > :13:47.Shadow Chancellor, others are backing Jeremy Corbyn who said that

:13:48. > :13:56.Tony Blair should F you, he said. He said the new Kinnock was, a disgrace

:13:57. > :14:04.to Wales. -- new Kinnock. And David Ward said some Labour MPs, are

:14:05. > :14:08.bloody Tories who should join the Sunni Cabinet. I ask again, what

:14:09. > :14:15.happened to the kinder, gentler politics or are they all comedian? I

:14:16. > :14:19.don't think any Labour MPs should leave the parliamentary Labour

:14:20. > :14:27.Party. I don't think we should be in any way suggesting a split, but let

:14:28. > :14:31.me say that if the national exhibit of committee last night had voted to

:14:32. > :14:35.deny the fair and just chant from Labour members across the country to

:14:36. > :14:40.vote... I think the Labour Party would have split. Is it not a sign

:14:41. > :14:45.of how rancorous this campaign is expected to be that local party

:14:46. > :14:50.constituency organisations have been told not to have meetings? I think

:14:51. > :14:55.the Labour Party has always been and should always be a coalition of

:14:56. > :15:00.socialists and social Democrats. Why can you not have meetings? The NEC

:15:01. > :15:08.thinks the Labour Party has enough on its plate... It's worried about

:15:09. > :15:12.how bad is going to be. Many don't have meetings in any event in

:15:13. > :15:13.August. They also don't have leadership campaigns although they

:15:14. > :15:25.are going to have two in a row. If you joined the Labour Party last

:15:26. > :15:30.year, maybe to vote for Mr Corbyn, do you get to vote this year are you

:15:31. > :15:35.it by the cut-off date of January? If you joined as a full member last

:15:36. > :15:42.year, you are entitled to vote. What about the ?3 sign ups? My

:15:43. > :15:48.understanding is that the people who joined the ?3 last year, if they

:15:49. > :15:54.didn't join as full members, would have two Reed register and pay ?25.

:15:55. > :16:00.ISU Mr Corbyn and his campaign will be organising that? I want an

:16:01. > :16:04.election process that is open and inclusive. I don't want to see

:16:05. > :16:09.Labour supporters prised out of having their say, so the ?25

:16:10. > :16:15.disturbs me somewhat. If you sign up to join the Labour Party, and we are

:16:16. > :16:19.told 130,000 have joined since the referendum, and I think they paid

:16:20. > :16:24.?40, they are now being told they can't vote unless they pay another

:16:25. > :16:29.?25. In the small print, it said that they could vote in a leadership

:16:30. > :16:34.election. Are you not going back on that? It wasn't small print, it was

:16:35. > :16:38.big print. It said, if you join, you will be able to vote. I know that

:16:39. > :16:42.Angela Eagle, Neil Kinnock and others were encouraging people to

:16:43. > :16:46.join. It disturbs me greatly. I'd like to see that looked at again. We

:16:47. > :16:51.are not afraid of more people involved. We are not afraid of ideas

:16:52. > :16:54.or debate. Let's make it as inclusive or participate we as

:16:55. > :17:01.possible. Do you detect that there is still massive support for Mr

:17:02. > :17:06.Corbyn among the rank and file members of the party? I do, but I

:17:07. > :17:10.don't take any election for granted, so what Jeremy and his team have got

:17:11. > :17:14.to do is put out a positive agenda for a Labour government, what it

:17:15. > :17:18.will do, and how we will get a Labour government. Labour is in

:17:19. > :17:21.turmoil, it is maybe going to the courts over the membership and who

:17:22. > :17:26.can vote, the campaign goes all the way through until the new leader is

:17:27. > :17:30.announced on the 24th, we don't know what will happen now, there could

:17:31. > :17:36.still be a schism or a split. How do you call an election? We believe

:17:37. > :17:40.that we need stability. We've got a mandate for a five-year term. I

:17:41. > :17:44.think it's right that we fulfil that mandate and carry on until the

:17:45. > :17:49.election date that has been set and we make a success of leaving the

:17:50. > :17:54.European Union. So no election? We will hold that against you if you

:17:55. > :17:57.change your mind. Just looking at my watch, 12 minutes until Prime

:17:58. > :18:03.Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron's final one. It's go back to the

:18:04. > :18:07.Commons and JoCo. We are going to talk a bit more

:18:08. > :18:11.about the Labour leadership. With me is Stephen Kinnock. He was among the

:18:12. > :18:14.first of the Parliamentary Labour Party to call for Jeremy Corbyn to

:18:15. > :18:18.step down and resign cost of every attempt you and your colleagues are

:18:19. > :18:22.made to prevent Jeremy Corbyn being on the ballot for the next

:18:23. > :18:27.leadership contest has failed. It was a decision of the NEC. I

:18:28. > :18:31.personally don't understand the logic, but it is what it is and we

:18:32. > :18:35.have now got to move forward. We have a leadership contest. We are

:18:36. > :18:42.now battling for the soul of the Labour Party. I genuinely believe we

:18:43. > :18:46.will win. Will be party split? There is only one Labour Party and we will

:18:47. > :18:53.continue as a Labour Party. Angela Eagle has got what it takes to win.

:18:54. > :18:58.She's got the experience. She is the kind of person we need to steady the

:18:59. > :19:02.ship. She is a persuader, not a protester. Brexit has changed the

:19:03. > :19:06.face of British politics. Angela has the skills and experience to carry

:19:07. > :19:12.out the negotiations, not just the wave a placard in a corridor. So you

:19:13. > :19:17.see John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn and their supporters as they protest

:19:18. > :19:22.movement, not the real Labour Party? With all due respect to Jeremy and

:19:23. > :19:25.John, they have spent their careers in rooms and rallies where everybody

:19:26. > :19:30.agrees with them. We are in the middle of a national crisis and we

:19:31. > :19:34.need a serious politician, Angela Eagle. But with the evidence we

:19:35. > :19:40.have, Jeremy Corbyn will win another Labour leadership contest. If you

:19:41. > :19:44.look at people's mailbags, a lot of my colleagues, many members are

:19:45. > :19:49.saying, I voted for Jeremy last time, but I am realising he is not

:19:50. > :19:53.up to the job, failing to hold the Prime Minister to account at PMQs,

:19:54. > :19:57.hopeless on the refugee crisis, hopeless in the referendum, and

:19:58. > :20:01.coming out the morning after the referendum to say that we should

:20:02. > :20:05.trigger article 50 immediately, as if he was asking Islington council

:20:06. > :20:11.to change the streetlights. It is extraordinary and I think it shows

:20:12. > :20:15.how out of touch with reality he is. But he still could win. If he does

:20:16. > :20:20.win a second leadership contest, will you and your colleagues shut

:20:21. > :20:25.up? I will serve my constituents and I'd be happy and honoured to do that

:20:26. > :20:30.from the backbenches. You wouldn't serve in a Jeremy Corbyn Shadow

:20:31. > :20:33.Cabinet. I do not have confidence in Jeremy is a leader and you can't

:20:34. > :20:38.serve on the front bench without that. We don't have a front bench at

:20:39. > :20:42.the moment. We are not able to form a credible opposition. I hope that

:20:43. > :20:45.our members who vote over the coming weeks and months think about the

:20:46. > :20:51.future of our democracy. If you can't form a front bench, you can't

:20:52. > :20:56.form an opposition. What do you say that Owen Smith, who is also

:20:57. > :21:01.challenging for the leadership? I genuinely hope that we will have

:21:02. > :21:05.only one candidate to campaign against Jeremy, and I hope that

:21:06. > :21:08.candidate will be Angela Eagle, but I win is a very talented politician

:21:09. > :21:15.and he brings a lot to the table, so let's see what happens. -- Owen

:21:16. > :21:22.It will be a long hot summer, perhaps without the heat.

:21:23. > :21:25.It is all right for you, in air-conditioned splendour! We are

:21:26. > :21:29.struggling. You know it is important when there are helicopters above,

:21:30. > :21:35.and there are helicopters above today. Let's have a look at the

:21:36. > :21:39.shops from the helicopter, this glorious July day, with Westminster,

:21:40. > :21:43.the Houses of Parliament, the palace of Westminster in all of its glory.

:21:44. > :21:49.Very shortly, the Prime Minister will be going in there for his final

:21:50. > :21:53.PMQs. The press is here in massive numbers in College Green. I am not

:21:54. > :21:58.sure if you could see us. If we could, we would wave at you.

:21:59. > :22:03.European media, British media, American media. Once again,

:22:04. > :22:08.Westminster, the centre of media attention for these historic events.

:22:09. > :22:13.David Cameron's final PMQs. Before we do the build-up to that, let's

:22:14. > :22:14.remind ourselves of his time in office, including some of those key

:22:15. > :22:25.Parliamentary moments. Prime Minister, do you regret, when

:22:26. > :22:33.asked what your favourite joke was, you replied, Nick Clegg? What

:22:34. > :22:34.happened on bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It

:22:35. > :22:45.was wrong. We simply cannot have a situation

:22:46. > :22:50.where a failed pariah state festers on Europe's southern border.

:22:51. > :22:58.Calm down, dear, calm down. Calm down.

:22:59. > :23:04.HECKERLING Order, order.

:23:05. > :23:12.What is on offer is not in Britain's interests.

:23:13. > :23:19.I am a marriage man, and the great thing about last night's vote is

:23:20. > :23:22.that two gay people who love each other will now be able to get

:23:23. > :23:28.married, and I think that's an important advance.

:23:29. > :23:35.It is clear to me that the British Parliament, reflecting the views of

:23:36. > :23:38.the British people, does not want to see British military action. I get

:23:39. > :23:42.that and the government will act accordingly.

:23:43. > :23:49.I take full responsibility for employing Andy Coulson.

:23:50. > :23:56.I think people can feel it is a bit like a general election. If you are

:23:57. > :24:04.fed up the Tories, give them a kick. This is totally different.

:24:05. > :24:10.I can tell him what is happening under this government, inflation is

:24:11. > :24:15.down, unemployment is down, the economy is growing, the deficit is

:24:16. > :24:18.down. We have faced some tough times in this country but we have a

:24:19. > :24:21.government which is on the side of hard-working people.

:24:22. > :24:34.As he is one of the causes of the deficit, I think we've just found

:24:35. > :24:39.the first ever example of political maso- sadism. Order, we know what

:24:40. > :24:42.the Prime Minister meant. I have been to see the Queen and I will now

:24:43. > :24:45.form a majority Conservative government. The question before the

:24:46. > :24:52.house today is how we keep the British people safe from the threat

:24:53. > :24:55.posed by Isil. I think I know what my mother would say. I think she'd

:24:56. > :25:01.look across the dispatch box and she'd say, put on a proper suit, do

:25:02. > :25:06.up your tie and sing the national anthem. Within the last hour, I have

:25:07. > :25:11.negotiated a deal to give the United Kingdom special status. I believe

:25:12. > :25:14.this is enough for me to recommend that the United Kingdom remain in

:25:15. > :25:23.the European Union, having the best of both worlds. So, a 4-point lead

:25:24. > :25:24.for leaving the EU. I think the country requires fresh leadership to

:25:25. > :25:37.take it in this direction. The times of David Cameron. Laura

:25:38. > :25:42.Kuenssberg joins us. British politics is a brutal old business.

:25:43. > :25:46.He is a man who won an overall majority against the odds only a

:25:47. > :25:51.year ago. We thought he would stay until spring 2019. He lost the

:25:52. > :25:55.referendum still thought he could stay until September. That didn't

:25:56. > :25:58.work out, he has gone this afternoon, the removal vans are

:25:59. > :26:03.already taking the furniture out. We make people moved house, which is

:26:04. > :26:09.very stressful, and we make the Prime Minister do that in front of

:26:10. > :26:12.the world's media. This is a brutal, rapid process that this time that

:26:13. > :26:18.happened at 1 million miles an hour, rather than the normal case it would

:26:19. > :26:23.happen at. So rapid that wasn't the helping to move the furniture? It

:26:24. > :26:28.looked like it, but when he almost skipped back into number ten,

:26:29. > :26:31.whistling a tune, I wonder if it has been doing the cooking. As we head

:26:32. > :26:37.towards Prime Minister's Questions, one of the things were saying about

:26:38. > :26:41.David Cameron is, for all that his plans have gone completely right in

:26:42. > :26:44.the last couple of weeks, he is a Prime Minister who part of his

:26:45. > :26:50.memory will be that he really did enjoy Prime Minister's Questions, he

:26:51. > :26:53.is good at it, he has done it 146 times, a better attendance record

:26:54. > :26:57.than any recent Prime Minister of turning up to do those questions

:26:58. > :27:01.every week, and it tells you something about him. The reason

:27:02. > :27:05.partly he is good at it and enjoys it is because he spent 20 years both

:27:06. > :27:09.as a Tory staffer and then an opposition politician, then

:27:10. > :27:14.opposition leader, every Wednesday being consumed by PMQs, learning the

:27:15. > :27:18.games, learning how to get your way through it. He has been good at it

:27:19. > :27:21.and he enjoyed it and that tells you something about the kind of

:27:22. > :27:27.politician is. He is a creature of Westminster. Has worked here in one

:27:28. > :27:32.way or another since the early 20s. -- his early 20s. When Margaret

:27:33. > :27:37.Thatcher was forced to leave, the final appearances, she was on

:27:38. > :27:41.steroids. Mr Cameron may be the same, but a difficult gig for Jeremy

:27:42. > :27:47.Corbyn, who has got a leadership contest and needs to set the right

:27:48. > :27:51.tone. Indeed, not least because John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor,

:27:52. > :27:55.has appalled some MPs by last night save on stage, I don't know if you

:27:56. > :28:00.have discussed it earlier, with the bleeping, so plenty of leaps on the

:28:01. > :28:06.show. So Jeremy Corbyn, who has repeatedly said he wants to bring

:28:07. > :28:09.the party together, and that if Labour MPs have got a problem they

:28:10. > :28:12.should come and talk to him, though many of them have been telling him

:28:13. > :28:15.to go for months and he hasn't listened, he needs to strike that

:28:16. > :28:21.tone today but, amidst this ceremonial occasion, the Prime

:28:22. > :28:25.Minister's final one and, if we know anything about David Cameron, I am

:28:26. > :28:31.sure he will have a vintage PMQs joke ready to unleash the opposition

:28:32. > :28:35.leader. I think some of PMQs will be a bit like a sort of tribute, isn't

:28:36. > :28:39.David Cameron marvellous, does the Prime Minister agree with me how

:28:40. > :28:50.marvellous is... Favourite acts and questions. 48 hours ago... I have

:28:51. > :28:55.lost all sense of time. Theresa May was planning a two-month leadership

:28:56. > :28:59.campaign. Now she has to appoint a cabinet tonight. Do we have any

:29:00. > :29:03.indications of who is in her mind for the top jobs? Does Theresa

:29:04. > :29:10.Villiers have a job? Will she be appointing Richard Burgon? She was

:29:11. > :29:13.praising Theresa May forcefully this morning, so you never know. This

:29:14. > :29:17.whole thing has been Considine at. Theresa May is the kind of

:29:18. > :29:22.politician who likes to take her time. That privilege has been taken

:29:23. > :29:27.away. So, yes, of course, there are Westminster guessing games going on.

:29:28. > :29:33.For fun. But they are just guessing games. For fun, briefly, here are a

:29:34. > :29:37.few of them, there is a widespread expectation that Jordan scored will

:29:38. > :29:41.leave the Treasury, -- George Osborne will leave. The garment will

:29:42. > :29:48.move in, former accountant, safe pair of hands, -- Philip Hammond. He

:29:49. > :29:54.understands money. That is widely expected to happen. George Osborne's

:29:55. > :29:59.allies believe that that will be a job swap and he will go to be the

:30:00. > :30:03.Foreign Secretary. One of the most interesting thing about the

:30:04. > :30:07.reshuffle, I think more interesting than the fact there are likely to be

:30:08. > :30:09.many more women in the cabinet, because Theresa May isn't going to

:30:10. > :30:13.give people a job just because they are a woman. She will appoint the

:30:14. > :30:19.people she thinks are best placed. What does she do about that trio who

:30:20. > :30:23.represent the best and worst of the last ten years of Tory politics,

:30:24. > :30:28.Boris Johnson, George Osborne and Michael Gove? What does she do with

:30:29. > :30:30.them? Does she play them all out, which would send a very strong

:30:31. > :30:48.message? Does she keep them for I know the whole house will join me

:30:49. > :30:53.in congratulating Andy Murray, Heather Watson, on their stunning

:30:54. > :30:57.success at Wimbledon. This morning I have meetings with ministerial

:30:58. > :31:01.colleagues and others. Other than one meeting with Her Majesty The

:31:02. > :31:11.Queen this afternoon, the diary for the rest of my day is remarkably

:31:12. > :31:16.light. May I echo his congratulations to Andy Murray and

:31:17. > :31:22.all the other winners. May we thank the Prime Minister for all his hard

:31:23. > :31:28.work and his leadership. And particularly his commitment to the

:31:29. > :31:33.union and to Northern Ireland, and swimming in not on, maybe he would

:31:34. > :31:40.like to come and swim in luck and eight, we look forward to working

:31:41. > :31:44.with the next Prime Minister. I'm told there are lots of roles out

:31:45. > :31:55.there, there is the England football team... There is Top Dear, even

:31:56. > :32:02.across the pond, there is a role that needs filling. If I can go to

:32:03. > :32:12.my pet subject, Brexit really threatens. Really threatens the

:32:13. > :32:17.union. Will he work with his successors to ensure we have

:32:18. > :32:21.somebody who will pull together all the countries of the union and the

:32:22. > :32:29.overseas territories and make it so we all work and thrive together?

:32:30. > :32:32.Festival that mistaken for his kind remarks and fascinating suggestions

:32:33. > :32:38.for future jobs, I think most of them sound harder than this one. --

:32:39. > :32:43.first of all. I do believe Northern Ireland is stronger than it was a

:32:44. > :32:48.the full devolution of justice and home affairs, delivered under this

:32:49. > :32:51.government, the seminal report, record inward investment, I care

:32:52. > :32:59.passionately about our united kingdom, we do need to make sure

:33:00. > :33:04.that as we leave the European Union, we work out how to keep the benefits

:33:05. > :33:08.of the Common travel area, hard work is being done now with civil servant

:33:09. > :33:17.in Northern Ireland and Whitehall and also the Republic, that what

:33:18. > :33:22.needs to quicken. I would like to also paid tribute to my honourable

:33:23. > :33:27.friend and the hard-working as the leading this great country for the

:33:28. > :33:32.last few years. His lasting legacy will include supporting the Kurds,

:33:33. > :33:36.whose peshmerga are bravely fighting Daesh in all our interest. Having

:33:37. > :33:42.visited them on the front line,, although our training are crucial,

:33:43. > :33:45.the injuries could be reduced with additional equipment like body

:33:46. > :33:50.armour, respirators and front line medical facilities and we could

:33:51. > :33:53.possibly provide beds in a specialist hospital in Birmingham

:33:54. > :33:57.today most seriously injured. Does he agree this is a relatively small

:33:58. > :34:01.investment that would make a huge difference to our allies in the

:34:02. > :34:10.common fight to defeat the evil of terrorism? Thirst -- first of all

:34:11. > :34:16.thank you for your words. The Kurds are doing valuable work against the

:34:17. > :34:18.ash in Iraq and Syria. I will look carefully at his suggestion of using

:34:19. > :34:24.the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, who have excellent facilities for

:34:25. > :34:27.battlefield facilities, our army are helping the peshmerga but we will

:34:28. > :34:33.look and see if more can be done. Let's be frank, the strategy is

:34:34. > :34:39.working on the Daesh is on the back foot, its finances have been hit,

:34:40. > :34:43.more than 25,000 fighters have been killed, desertion has increased and

:34:44. > :34:47.the flow of foreign fighters has fallen by 90%. I have always said

:34:48. > :35:00.this will take a long time to work in Iraq and Syria but we must stick

:35:01. > :35:07.at it. Jeremy Corbyn. Can I start gradually the Prime Minister in pain

:35:08. > :35:11.trouble to be winners at Wimbledon, -- paying tribute. Also I think it

:35:12. > :35:16.would be nice if we can gradually did Serena Williams on her fantastic

:35:17. > :35:22.achievement as well. -- congratulated. It's only right that

:35:23. > :35:25.after six years as Prime Minister, we thank him for his service. By

:35:26. > :35:28.that and is agreed with him but some achievements of his I do want to

:35:29. > :35:37.play recognition to, one is helping to secure the release of shack army

:35:38. > :35:40.from quantum Bay and legislating to achieve equal marriage within our

:35:41. > :35:44.society, and I'm sure he will acknowledge that Labour boats helped

:35:45. > :35:52.get it through on that occasion! Will they acknowledge some concern

:35:53. > :35:56.that the way homelessness has risen for the last six years and looks

:35:57. > :36:01.like it will continue to rise in this country? Let me thank him for

:36:02. > :36:06.his kind remarks, I would join him in pain should be to Serena Williams

:36:07. > :36:16.who has now knocked Steffi Graf's amazing record of 22 grand slams,

:36:17. > :36:19.has overtaken that. The case in Guantanamo Bay was one that be

:36:20. > :36:23.raised again and again with the US government and I'm pleased it was

:36:24. > :36:26.resolved. And also what is it about equal marriage, there are 30,000

:36:27. > :36:31.dead people in our country when the last six years have been able to get

:36:32. > :36:34.married and that is real progress, I will never forget the day in number

:36:35. > :36:37.ten when one of the people who works very close to the front door said to

:36:38. > :36:41.me, I'm not that interested in politics but because of something

:36:42. > :36:46.you're not have done, I'm able to marry the person I have loved all my

:36:47. > :36:50.life this weekend and that was one of my favourite moments in this job.

:36:51. > :36:55.As for homelessness, it is still 10% below the peak saw on the labour but

:36:56. > :37:05.the key is building more homes, we have put 7000 since I became Prime

:37:06. > :37:08.Minister but the key to building more homes is programmes, reforms to

:37:09. > :37:14.the planning system, but the key is a strong economy. I had to what the

:37:15. > :37:20.Home Secretary has been saying over the past few days and she has been

:37:21. > :37:23.saying it is harder than ever for young people to buy their first

:37:24. > :37:27.house. Does the Prime Minister think this is because of record low

:37:28. > :37:35.house-building for his government's apparent belief that ?450,000 is an

:37:36. > :37:40.affordable starter home? Let me say how warmly I congratulate the Home

:37:41. > :37:45.Secretary on becoming leader of the Conservative Party. When it comes to

:37:46. > :37:52.women prime ministers, I'm pleased to be able to say pretty soon it

:37:53. > :38:03.will be 2-0. And not a pink bus insight! On the issue of... Of

:38:04. > :38:07.housing and homelessness, 700,000 homes have been delivered. He asks

:38:08. > :38:11.about this issue of affordability which is absolutely key. When I

:38:12. > :38:14.became Prime Minister, because of what had happened to the mortgage

:38:15. > :38:19.market, first-time buyer of the needed to have as much as ?30,000 to

:38:20. > :38:23.put a deposit down. Because of the conversion of help to buy and shared

:38:24. > :38:27.ownership, some people are able to get on the housing ladder with as

:38:28. > :38:31.little as ?2000 and with a low mortgage rate, the new houses we are

:38:32. > :38:40.building, we are making good progress. The malaise seems deeper

:38:41. > :38:44.still. The Home Secretary said, talking of the economy, so that it

:38:45. > :38:48.really does work for everyone, because it is apparent to anyone in

:38:49. > :38:55.touch with the real world that people do not feel our economy works

:38:56. > :38:59.that way. Isn't she right that too many people coming to many places in

:39:00. > :39:03.Britain, feel their economy has been destroyed in towns they are in

:39:04. > :39:06.because the industries have gone, there are levels of high and implode

:39:07. > :39:12.or underemployment and a deep sense of malaise? Don't we all need to

:39:13. > :39:15.address that question? If we're going to talk about the economic

:39:16. > :39:21.record, let's get the faxed straight. We have cut the deficit,

:39:22. > :39:24.there are 2 million more people in work, almost a million more

:39:25. > :39:29.businesses, 2.9 million apprenticeships have been trained

:39:30. > :39:35.under this government and it comes to property, 300,000 fewer people in

:39:36. > :39:41.relative poverty, 100,000 fewer children in relative poverty. To be

:39:42. > :39:46.accused of sloth in delivery, let's just take the last week we have both

:39:47. > :39:50.been having, we got on with it, we about resignation, nomination,

:39:51. > :39:51.competition and current nation, they haven't even decided what the rules

:39:52. > :40:05.are yet! -- coronation. If they ever got into power, to take

:40:06. > :40:12.about a year to work out who would sit where! Democracy is an exciting

:40:13. > :40:22.and splendid thing and I'm enjoying every moment of it! The Home

:40:23. > :40:28.Secretary, Mr Speaker, talking of the economy... Again, she said many

:40:29. > :40:39.people find themselves exploited by unscrupulous bosses to stop I can't

:40:40. > :40:53.imagine who she is referring to! But in his... In his hand discussion...

:40:54. > :40:56.In his handover discussions with the Home Secretary, could enlighten us

:40:57. > :41:03.as to whether or not there is any proposal to take on agency Britain

:41:04. > :41:07.by banning zero hours contracts, clamping down on umbrella companies,

:41:08. > :41:15.repealing the trade union act or preferably all three? He's right

:41:16. > :41:21.that democracy is a splendid thing, I have to agree with him. Let me

:41:22. > :41:26.answer directly on expedition in the workplace. It is this government at

:41:27. > :41:32.the first introduced a living wage stop -- exploitation. It is

:41:33. > :41:35.massively increased the power of the gang masters authority, there are

:41:36. > :41:39.fines for businesses that don't pay the minimum wage and more policing

:41:40. > :41:44.and prosecutions taking place although those things have changed

:41:45. > :41:49.under government. As for zero hours contracts, they account for less

:41:50. > :41:52.than one in four people in work, 60% of people in them do not want to

:41:53. > :41:56.work more hours and it was this government that did something the

:41:57. > :42:01.Labour Party never did, which was to ban exclusive so hours contracts. 13

:42:02. > :42:06.years of them committed a coalition Conservative government to do it.

:42:07. > :42:10.Let me say something about the democratic process of leadership

:42:11. > :42:16.elections, because I did say a couple of weeks ago, I am beginning

:42:17. > :42:21.to admire his tenacity! He's reminding me of the Black Knight in

:42:22. > :42:26.Monty Python's holy Grail. He has been kicked seven times but keeps

:42:27. > :42:35.saying, it's only a flesh wound! I admire that. Mr Speaker, I would

:42:36. > :42:41.like the Prime Minister to address another issue that the house voted

:42:42. > :42:48.on last week. And I have got a question from Nina, hang on... It's

:42:49. > :42:54.a question from somebody who deserves an answer. And she says, I

:42:55. > :43:00.would like to know if there is any possibility that a European Union

:43:01. > :43:03.citizen who has lived in Britain for 30 years can have their right of

:43:04. > :43:10.permanent residents revoked or deported, depending on the Brexit

:43:11. > :43:14.negotiations. There has been no clear answer to this question. It is

:43:15. > :43:20.one that worries a large number of people and it would be good if in

:43:21. > :43:26.his last question Time, he could at least offer some assurance to those

:43:27. > :43:31.people. Let me reassure Nina, there is absolutely no chance of that

:43:32. > :43:35.happening to somebody in those circumstances, we're working hard to

:43:36. > :43:39.get a guarantee for EU citizens that they will have their rights

:43:40. > :43:42.respected, all those who have, to this country. The only circumstance

:43:43. > :43:46.I could ever in visit a future government trying to undo that

:43:47. > :43:49.guarantee would be if British citizens in other European countries

:43:50. > :43:54.didn't have their rights respected, so it's important to have

:43:55. > :43:57.reciprocity. The new Prime Minister will be working together guarantee

:43:58. > :44:05.as fast as we can. I have got an e-mail as well. I am not making this

:44:06. > :44:09.up, I promise was to buy but this on the 62 of September 2015 from

:44:10. > :44:14.someone called Judith and she said, please, please, keep witty and not

:44:15. > :44:21.triumphalism during the first B with Jeremy Corbyn. She said because

:44:22. > :44:25.Tom Watson, who may oust Jeremy Corbyn, is a very different kettle

:44:26. > :44:30.of fish. He is far more dangerous in the long-term. She goes on, so

:44:31. > :44:35.sensible, sober, polite answers, let him create his own party disunity.

:44:36. > :44:46.After this is over, I have got to find Judith and find that what on

:44:47. > :44:55.earth happened next! Mr Speaker... I have had the pleasure of asking the

:44:56. > :44:58.Prime Minister 179 questions. Thank you, there are plenty more to come

:44:59. > :45:07.to his successor, don't worry about that! But before I ask him the last

:45:08. > :45:11.question, could I just put on record and wish him well as he leaves this

:45:12. > :45:15.office and also wish his family well, Samantha and their children,

:45:16. > :45:20.because I think we should all recognise that while many of us

:45:21. > :45:23.really do enjoy our jobs and political rights, is the loved ones

:45:24. > :45:28.nearest to us and our families who make enormous sacrifices that we can

:45:29. > :45:35.do this. I would also like to pass on thanks to his mum for his advice

:45:36. > :45:39.about ties and suits and so on. It's extremely kind of her, I would be

:45:40. > :45:41.grateful if you would pass that on to her personally. And I reflected

:45:42. > :45:54.on the lesson she offered. There is a rumour I want him to deal

:45:55. > :46:00.with. There is a rumour going around that his departure has been

:46:01. > :46:06.carefully Corey Grant so he can slip aimlessly into the vacancy created

:46:07. > :46:12.-- created this morning on Strictly by Len Goodman's departure. Is that

:46:13. > :46:20.his next career? -- carefully choreographed. I can assure him that

:46:21. > :46:25.is not the case. I thank him for the kind words and wishes to my amazing

:46:26. > :46:29.wife, Samantha, and my lovely children, who are watching from the

:46:30. > :46:32.gallery this morning. He is right, the pressure off and bears hardest

:46:33. > :46:40.on those around us in these jobs, and let me send my best to his

:46:41. > :46:45.family. I will leave it to others to work out how many questions are

:46:46. > :46:48.answered from this dispatch box. Because of your belief in letting

:46:49. > :46:53.everyone have their say, I think I have done a record of 92 hours of

:46:54. > :46:57.statements from this dispatch box, as well as some very enjoyable

:46:58. > :47:02.liaison committee appearances and other things. I will certainly said

:47:03. > :47:07.his good wishes back to my mother. He seems to have taken her advice

:47:08. > :47:11.and is looking absolutely splendid today. But it gives me the

:47:12. > :47:15.opportunity to put a rumour to rest as well, even more serious than the

:47:16. > :47:22.strictly come dancing one, and he will appreciate this, because the

:47:23. > :47:29.rumour somehow that I don't love Larry. I do, and I have photographic

:47:30. > :47:32.evidence. Sadly, I can't take Larry with me. He belongs to the house and

:47:33. > :47:40.the staff love him very much, as do I. Is my right honourable friend

:47:41. > :47:43.aware that, in 33 years in this house, watching five prime ministers

:47:44. > :47:50.and several ex-prime ministers, I have seen him achieve a mastery of

:47:51. > :47:56.that dispatch box unparalleled in my time, not just because of his

:47:57. > :48:02.command of detail, his wit, but because he commands the respect of

:48:03. > :48:08.friend and foe alike, who know that he is driven not just by legitimate

:48:09. > :48:15.political ambitions and ideas, but by a sense of duty which always

:48:16. > :48:19.leads him to try to make this country more prosperous, more

:48:20. > :48:31.solvent, more tolerant, more flair and more free, and he will command

:48:32. > :48:34.the respect of generations to come. Those words mean a lot from my right

:48:35. > :48:40.honourable friend, who spent so much time in this house. It is a special

:48:41. > :48:43.place and prime ministers questions, for all of its theatrics, does have

:48:44. > :48:47.a purpose, because it is time every week when the Prime Minister has to

:48:48. > :48:51.know everything going on in Whitehall, and often you find out

:48:52. > :48:55.things which you want to stop pretty quickly before 12 o'clock on

:48:56. > :48:58.Wednesday. I believe politics is about public service in the national

:48:59. > :49:02.interest, which is what I have always tried to do. This session has

:49:03. > :49:07.some admirers around the world. When I did his job and I met Mayor

:49:08. > :49:11.Bloomberg in New York. Everybody knew him and nobody had a clue who I

:49:12. > :49:21.was until eventually somebody said, hey, Cameron, Prime Minister's

:49:22. > :49:25.Questions. We love your show! Thank you very much. I join the Prime

:49:26. > :49:29.Minister and the leader of the Labour Party in paying tribute to

:49:30. > :49:34.all of the winners at Wimbledon. This week, we mark the 21st

:49:35. > :49:39.anniversary of the Srebonica genocide. It is one of the few

:49:40. > :49:42.political causes that the Prime Minister and I both wholeheartedly

:49:43. > :49:47.support and I hope he will be impressing on his successor the

:49:48. > :49:52.importance of supporting the Remembering Srebonica organisation

:49:53. > :49:56.and all of its good work, notwithstanding our differences, I

:49:57. > :49:59.genuinely extend my best personal wishes to the Prime Minister and his

:50:00. > :50:07.family and I wish them all of the best. However... The Prime

:50:08. > :50:12.Minister's legacy will undoubtedly be that he has taken us to the brink

:50:13. > :50:17.of being taken out of the European Union, so we will not be applauding

:50:18. > :50:23.his premiership on this. What advice has he given his successor on taking

:50:24. > :50:31.Scotland out of the EU against the wishes of Scottish voters? First,

:50:32. > :50:35.let me join the right honourable gentleman in paying tribute to all

:50:36. > :50:39.of those who lost their lives in Srebonica and making sure we

:50:40. > :50:42.commemorate this every year. This year, there will be a service in the

:50:43. > :50:46.office where commemoration will be given, test dummy will be read out,

:50:47. > :50:51.and we should think of it alongside the terrible events of modern

:50:52. > :50:56.history such as the Holocaust. -- testimony will be read out. In this

:50:57. > :51:00.house, there is sometimes a price for nonintervention, and we should

:51:01. > :51:05.remember that. In terms of what he says about Scotland and the United

:51:06. > :51:09.Kingdom and Europe, my advice to my successor, a brilliant negotiator,

:51:10. > :51:14.is that we should try to be as close to the EU as we can be, or the

:51:15. > :51:18.benefits of trade, cooperation and security. The channel will not get

:51:19. > :51:22.any wider once we leave the EU and that is what we should seek, which

:51:23. > :51:27.will be good for the UK and Scotland. The Prime Minister's

:51:28. > :51:31.successor is well known in Scotland and across the front pages because

:51:32. > :51:41.of a threat to deport a loved and light family from the Highlands. Her

:51:42. > :51:44.first action in her premiership is likely to be imposing Trident

:51:45. > :51:51.against the wishes of every MP in Scotland. Meanwhile, she says she

:51:52. > :51:56.plans to plough on with Brexit, regardless of the fact that Scotland

:51:57. > :52:00.voted to remain in the EU. How does the outgoing Prime Minister think

:52:01. > :52:09.that all of this will go down in Scotland? Specifically on the Graham

:52:10. > :52:14.family, Mrs Brain came to this country to study for a Scottish

:52:15. > :52:17.history degree, she completed and her husband and son came as

:52:18. > :52:22.dependents. We have given them an extension until August one put in an

:52:23. > :52:27.application for a work visa. On Trident, there will a vote in this

:52:28. > :52:31.house. Many people in Scotland support our nuclear deterrent,

:52:32. > :52:36.maintaining it for the jobs which come in Scotland. He asks about the

:52:37. > :52:41.record of this government when it comes to Scotland. 143,000 more

:52:42. > :52:46.people in work in Scotland, massive investment in the renewable

:52:47. > :52:51.industries in Scotland, the two biggest warships ever built in our

:52:52. > :52:55.history, built in Scotland. A powerhouse parliament, a referendum

:52:56. > :52:59.that was legal, decisive and fair and, I might add, a Scotsman winning

:53:00. > :53:12.Wimbledon twice while I was Prime Minister. Never mind indie two. I

:53:13. > :53:16.think it is time for Andy two. I would like to thank Prime Minister

:53:17. > :53:21.for the leadership he has shown, particularly in his support of women

:53:22. > :53:25.within the Conservative Party. The Prime Minister's legacy for me,

:53:26. > :53:30.however, and for fellow cancer survivors is the personal support he

:53:31. > :53:36.has shown for the cancer drug fund. However, today, I would like to ask

:53:37. > :53:41.him to show that same support for those who have been affected by the

:53:42. > :53:48.contaminated blood. Would he please update the house as to whether they,

:53:49. > :53:53.too, will have a legacy? I think my honourable friend for what she said.

:53:54. > :53:58.She is right to raise this issue of contaminated blood. I can today

:53:59. > :54:04.announce that we will be spending the extra ?125 million we have

:54:05. > :54:07.identified in a much fairer and more conferences scheme, to guarantee

:54:08. > :54:12.that all of those affected will for the first time receive a regular

:54:13. > :54:18.payment. This will include all of those with appetisers stage one, who

:54:19. > :54:23.will receive ?3500 per year, rising to ?4000 by the end of the year.

:54:24. > :54:27.Annual payments will increase over the lifetime of the Parliament and

:54:28. > :54:33.will enhance the support for those who have been read or those who will

:54:34. > :54:36.be in future, significantly boosting the money for discretionary

:54:37. > :54:44.payments. -- those who have been bereaved. Last year, I apologised.

:54:45. > :54:48.Today, I will provide them with the support. While it isn't right to

:54:49. > :54:52.pick out two people, coming to constituency surgeries, making your

:54:53. > :54:56.point to your MP, campaigning as these sufferers have done, in my

:54:57. > :55:00.case, David Leadbetter and Hugh Davies coming to my surgery and

:55:01. > :55:05.saying, this mustn't stand, I know that not everybody will be satisfied

:55:06. > :55:09.in what is being done, but it just show our democracy working and

:55:10. > :55:13.compassion in religion to this problem. The Prime Minister came to

:55:14. > :55:19.office promising to keep the UK's triple-A rating, and top-down NHS

:55:20. > :55:26.reorganisations and to stop his party banging on about Europe. How

:55:27. > :55:33.would he say that is gone? In terms of the economic record, 2.5 million

:55:34. > :55:36.more jobs, the deficit cut by two thirds, 2.9 million apprenticeships,

:55:37. > :55:39.a million more businesses, a growth rate that has been at the top of the

:55:40. > :55:43.developed world, all of that because of the choices we made. Because we

:55:44. > :55:48.did that, we have been able to back our NHS with a 10% funding increase,

:55:49. > :55:53.over 10 billion in real terms in this Parliament. As for Europe, we

:55:54. > :55:56.have to settle these issues. I think it is right, when you are trying to

:55:57. > :56:00.settle a big constitutional issue, you don't just rely on Parliament,

:56:01. > :56:06.you ask the people as well and we made and we kept a promise. I am

:56:07. > :56:09.sorry if this turns out to be my last question to the Prime Minister,

:56:10. > :56:13.but I want to thank him for everything he has done for my

:56:14. > :56:16.constituency, where every school is now good or outstanding and the

:56:17. > :56:21.jobless total is down 64% since he took office. Can I encourage him to

:56:22. > :56:26.return to the big society agenda I know he is so passionate about? Can

:56:27. > :56:31.I ask him if he remembers saying, shortly before coming -- becoming

:56:32. > :56:35.Prime Minister, politicians are a mixture of egotism and altruism and

:56:36. > :56:38.you hope that the right one wins out so people do the right thing rather

:56:39. > :56:42.than the politically convenient thing. It seems to me he has stayed

:56:43. > :56:46.on the right side of that divide, not least in the manner of his

:56:47. > :56:51.departure, and I think the country will miss him a great deal. I think

:56:52. > :56:55.my friend for his kind remarks. When it comes to education, there is a

:56:56. > :57:01.strong record to build on. We have got 1.4 million children in good or

:57:02. > :57:06.outstanding schools since 2010. We have seen the free schools movement

:57:07. > :57:08.really take off. I visited one yesterday that is outstanding, as a

:57:09. > :57:16.court of them are, which is in amazing record. -- a quarter of

:57:17. > :57:20.them. As for the big society, yes, we should use a strong economy to

:57:21. > :57:24.build a bigger and stronger society. One thing we are doing is

:57:25. > :57:27.introducing National Citizen Service, 200,000 young people have

:57:28. > :57:31.taken part in that programme and I hope by the end of this Parliament

:57:32. > :57:36.it will be the norm for 16-year-olds to take part. We talk about the soft

:57:37. > :57:43.skills that are necessary to give people real life chances. National

:57:44. > :57:47.Citizen Service will help that. Can I thank the Prime Minister for the

:57:48. > :57:51.courteous way he has always answered questions I have managed to ask him.

:57:52. > :57:59.I have always listened carefully to his answers, but until I had two eye

:58:00. > :58:03.operations, I wasn't able to see him clearly. If he is concerned that I

:58:04. > :58:09.am about the newspaper reports that people who are not entitled to NHS

:58:10. > :58:14.cataract operations are jumping the queue and stopping people who are

:58:15. > :58:21.entitled to NHS operations having that treatment? I will look

:58:22. > :58:25.carefully... First, I think him kindly for his remarks. I have tried

:58:26. > :58:29.to answer questions from this dispatch box. It is difficult

:58:30. > :58:34.sometimes when you haven't seen the specific story, and I happened here.

:58:35. > :58:36.I recall that we are investing in these cataract operations and the

:58:37. > :58:41.number receiving them is going up but I will look carefully this

:58:42. > :58:46.afternoon at the question he asks about the danger of queue jumping

:58:47. > :58:52.and get back to them. -- back to him. Under the leadership of my

:58:53. > :58:57.right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, in my constituency,

:58:58. > :59:03.unemployment has dropped from 5.1% in May 2010 to 1.9 2010 in May this

:59:04. > :59:07.year. A record to be proud of and one I would like to thank him for.

:59:08. > :59:12.Does my right honourable friend agree with me that this has only

:59:13. > :59:14.been possible thanks to his firm focused on jobs, apprenticeships and

:59:15. > :59:22.skills, a strong economy and investment? The figures are

:59:23. > :59:26.remarkable, when a constituency is getting to 1.9% unemployment, that

:59:27. > :59:30.is very close to full employment and it is remarkable. What we have done

:59:31. > :59:34.with apprenticeships was 2.4 million in the last Parliament, an extra

:59:35. > :59:38.500,000 already in this Parliament, towards the target of 3 million in

:59:39. > :59:43.this Parliament, and I'm confident we can achieve that. These are not

:59:44. > :59:46.just numbers but real people who have experience of the workplace,

:59:47. > :59:52.who are learning a trade and taking first steps in a career. What I want

:59:53. > :59:57.is, when they get back to Korea, not only do they have the national

:59:58. > :00:01.minimum wage but they don't get to pay income tax until they are

:00:02. > :00:12.earning that wage. We have taken the largest people out of poverty...

:00:13. > :00:17.This week is black country week. Yesterday, Black Country manufactory

:00:18. > :00:23.is were in Parliament demonstrating the high quality products that are

:00:24. > :00:28.exported worldwide. Will the outgoing Prime Minister impress upon

:00:29. > :00:33.the incoming Prime Minister the huge importance of maintaining access to

:00:34. > :00:37.the EU single market during exits negotiations, in order that we can

:00:38. > :00:55.maximise the Black Country I absolutely agree. We have seen

:00:56. > :00:59.many thousands more in work under this government and we have seen a

:01:00. > :01:02.renaissance in manufacturing, particularly the automotive sector,

:01:03. > :01:06.some of which is in the Black Country. It is vital that we have

:01:07. > :01:13.proper access to the single market and he is right, this is one of the

:01:14. > :01:16.things we have to focus on. I want automotive, aerospace, high-quality

:01:17. > :01:23.manufacturing firms, to go from strength to strength, making sure we

:01:24. > :01:26.get that vital access to Europe. Ten years ago today, I was applying to

:01:27. > :01:30.become Conservative parliamentary candidate for Labour held at

:01:31. > :01:34.Worcester as my right honourable friend was uniting the opposition.

:01:35. > :01:37.Like so many on these benches, I entered this house on the wiki

:01:38. > :01:41.became Prime Minister and since then, unemployment in Worcester has

:01:42. > :01:45.halved, apprenticeships have doubled, we have more good and

:01:46. > :01:49.outstanding schools beginning to receive fairer funding, wages are up

:01:50. > :01:54.and taxes are down, can I thank him for all his service to our nation

:01:55. > :02:01.and for the legacy of improved life chances he will leave behind? Can I

:02:02. > :02:04.thank him for his kind remarks. We are seeing unemployment fall in all

:02:05. > :02:10.of these constituencies, the claimant count has gone down, more

:02:11. > :02:14.important is we now see 450,000 fewer children in households where

:02:15. > :02:18.nobody works. The effect of having a parent or a loved one in work,

:02:19. > :02:21.helping to put food on the table and provide a role model for their

:02:22. > :02:32.children is really what this is all about stop. Between broken vows,

:02:33. > :02:47.Brexit and the likely renewal of weapons of mass destruction in the

:02:48. > :02:50.Clyde,... Prime Minister... The Prime Minister has done more for

:02:51. > :02:57.Scottish independence than many of us on these benches had ever hoped

:02:58. > :03:04.to do. So as he contemplates a move to Aberdeen share, could the Prime

:03:05. > :03:14.Minister now make his commitment to Scottish independence official by

:03:15. > :03:17.visiting SNP .org/ join. But I would take to the honourable lady and

:03:18. > :03:20.although the SNP members of Parliament is when you have Lord

:03:21. > :03:26.Smith himself saying that the vowed to create a powerhouse parliament

:03:27. > :03:30.was kept, the SNP should pay attention to that and recognise a

:03:31. > :03:36.promise was made and a promise was delivered. I have talked many times

:03:37. > :03:39.at this blog is about creating this powerhouse parliament, what I

:03:40. > :03:44.haven't seen is the SNP using any of the powers they have now got. Mr

:03:45. > :03:55.Kenneth Clarke. Mr Speaker,, Festival during all

:03:56. > :04:01.those in thanking the Prime Minister for the statesman-like leadership to

:04:02. > :04:06.our party and our country over the last six years -- can I first of all

:04:07. > :04:09.joined those. And on this occasion for the debating eloquence but also

:04:10. > :04:15.the wit and the humour he has always brought to Prime Minister's

:04:16. > :04:20.Questions, and can I ask that is no doubt he will have some plans for a

:04:21. > :04:25.slightly more enjoyable and relaxed Wednesday morning and lunchtime,

:04:26. > :04:30.nevertheless he will still be an active participant in this house, as

:04:31. > :04:36.it faces a large number of problems over the next few years. As noted

:04:37. > :04:41.before no one Brexit means at the moment, they need his advice and

:04:42. > :04:47.statesmanship -- as no two people know what Brexit means. Can I thank

:04:48. > :04:51.him for his kind remarks, I remember one of the toughest concessions

:04:52. > :04:55.ahead in politics was one I was Leader of the Opposition and I were

:04:56. > :04:59.strong to get into the front bench and he would on a bird-watching

:05:00. > :05:05.holiday in Patagonia and was almost impossible to persuade him to come

:05:06. > :05:11.back. His first act as Chancellor of the Exchequer was to fire me as a

:05:12. > :05:14.special adviser. And I'm very proud of the fact that one of my first

:05:15. > :05:18.acts was to appoint him to my cabinet in the Coalition Government,

:05:19. > :05:23.I know that the then the beauty promised will join me in saying he

:05:24. > :05:27.provided great wisdom, thoughtfulness and ballast at a time

:05:28. > :05:35.of national faculty in the advice that he gave us. He is not always

:05:36. > :05:38.the easiest person to get hold of, Tory modernisation has never got as

:05:39. > :05:42.far as getting him to carry a mobile phone, he briefly had one they said,

:05:43. > :05:53.the problem was people keep running me on it! Feast of a morning meeting

:05:54. > :05:57.to accommodate his Monaco cigar. -- we had to move his morning meeting

:05:58. > :06:01.to accommodate his Monaco cigar. I will miss the rule of the crowd, I

:06:02. > :06:06.will miss the barbs from the opposition, but I will be willing on

:06:07. > :06:10.and I don't just mean willing on the new Prime Minister or indeed willing

:06:11. > :06:16.on the front bench, defending the manifesto I helped to put together

:06:17. > :06:18.but I mean willing all of you on. People come here with huge passion

:06:19. > :06:23.for the issues they care about, they come here with love forbidden city

:06:24. > :06:27.and says they represent and also willing on this place because yes,

:06:28. > :06:32.we can be pretty tough and challenge our leaders, perhaps more than other

:06:33. > :06:36.countries but that is something we can be proud of and we should keep

:06:37. > :06:42.at it and I hope you will all keep at it and I will rule you on as you

:06:43. > :06:47.do. The last thing over says you can achieve a lot of things in politics

:06:48. > :06:50.and that in the end, the national interest, public service, is what

:06:51. > :06:53.it's all about, nothing is impossible if you put your mind to

:06:54. > :07:06.it. After all, I was the future once.

:07:07. > :07:13.He leaves with a little speech, he is getting a standing ovation from

:07:14. > :07:23.the conservative side, doesn't like a standing ovation from the Labour

:07:24. > :07:27.side they are applauding. The speaker of the house applauding as

:07:28. > :07:38.well. So Mr Cameron's final Prime Minister's Questions comes to an

:07:39. > :07:43.end. The Prime Minister began by saying that his diary was remarkably

:07:44. > :07:48.light this afternoon, Samantha, his wife and three children were at

:07:49. > :07:53.Prime Minister's Questions, apparently one of the children was

:07:54. > :07:59.waving and cheering every time Tory MPs cheered, she was waving her

:08:00. > :08:03.cuddly goal at the Prime Minister as well, sadly we don't have these

:08:04. > :08:09.pictures. Jeremy Corbyn thanked him for his service. The applause, still

:08:10. > :08:14.going on for the Prime Minister. He went on to familiar themes he has

:08:15. > :08:21.brought to PMQs since September of last year, homelessness, the state

:08:22. > :08:25.of the economy, Mr Cameron battered them off but was at pains to point

:08:26. > :08:32.out that when it comes to women Prime Minister is, it is netting-

:08:33. > :08:37.zero to the Conservatives, -- not 2-0. He said he thought Jeremy

:08:38. > :08:42.Corbyn reminded him of the black Knight in the Holy Grain, the scene

:08:43. > :08:55.where he loses a night and leg but everything is a flesh wound and he

:08:56. > :09:00.keeps on. Mr Corbyn thanked David Cameron's month for her dress sense

:09:01. > :09:04.advice. So there we have it. David Cameron will now see people in the

:09:05. > :09:09.house, go back to Downing Street and at around 5pm will go to the Palace,

:09:10. > :09:14.formerly to resign as Prime Minister, followed by Theresa May

:09:15. > :09:23.becoming this country's next Prime Minister. Your thoughts? I think it

:09:24. > :09:28.was more like a promise to's stand up today, I think most of the MPs

:09:29. > :09:34.wanted there to be a light mood today, ceremonial occasion rather

:09:35. > :09:37.than a day when any serious policy discussion was done. There was one

:09:38. > :09:40.policy announcement in there, he announced more than ?100 million for

:09:41. > :09:46.victims of the contaminated blood scandal, something that has been a

:09:47. > :09:49.terrible incident, MPs have been hearing stories from the

:09:50. > :09:55.constituents, so there was some meat in tonnes of what he was saying, but

:09:56. > :10:01.overall David Cameron, remarkably light-hearted on what must be quite

:10:02. > :10:04.painful day, with huge numbers of preprepared jokes about Jeremy

:10:05. > :10:12.Corbyn which he relished delivering. Script have been working hard. But

:10:13. > :10:15.Jeremy Corbyn cleverly used some comments that carries a has made

:10:16. > :10:21.during a pitch for the leadership about things the covenant has not

:10:22. > :10:27.put right -- that Theresa May has made. The Prime Minister was quite

:10:28. > :10:33.clear that existing EU nationals in this country should remain with all

:10:34. > :10:38.the rights they have at the moment, that is not Theresa May's position,

:10:39. > :10:43.is it? I think that is the goal we all share. I think our new Prime

:10:44. > :10:46.Minister is cautious because she wants to make sure we secure the

:10:47. > :10:51.interests of words living in Europe, but we all want to get to a position

:10:52. > :10:55.where all EU citizens who are currently here are able to stay,

:10:56. > :11:00.apart from those who have committed criminal offences. Should they be a

:11:01. > :11:03.bargaining card or should be just give these EU nationals rights

:11:04. > :11:10.regardless of how Europe might treat our nationals? I think we all want

:11:11. > :11:16.to have the position of EU nationals secured in this country, to enable

:11:17. > :11:19.them to stay on the basis on which they can, but we do have two

:11:20. > :11:24.exercise a degree of common sense and ensure that we also do all we

:11:25. > :11:30.can to secure the rights of UK citizens in the rest of Europe.

:11:31. > :11:34.You're going to miss him. I was in at the start of the Cameron project,

:11:35. > :11:40.I remember when I was campaigning for his leadership and there were

:11:41. > :11:43.people who said, can he really cope with Prime Minister's Questions, and

:11:44. > :11:51.I think he has the mistreated that he is a fabulous performer. And of

:11:52. > :11:55.an era, in the sense that he was criticised for running a very

:11:56. > :11:59.public-school government, a Notting Hill set government, we now have

:12:00. > :12:05.another grammar school Prime Minister who is surrounded by

:12:06. > :12:09.public-school people, we know Steve Webb, from a council house

:12:10. > :12:15.background, a number of them like that, even Michael Gove, managed to

:12:16. > :12:20.take at three Bullingdon boys in the space of 48 hours, it'll be

:12:21. > :12:25.different for Labour now. Laura said earlier that David Cameron was very

:12:26. > :12:32.much a creature of Westminster, and I agree on that, he was a creature

:12:33. > :12:35.of Westminster, and able performer, as we saw in Parliament today, but I

:12:36. > :12:38.think the parliament needs somebody who was not a creature of

:12:39. > :12:44.Westminster and somebody was a bit more than a performer. The challenge

:12:45. > :12:48.for the Conservative Party is to become a representative of the

:12:49. > :12:53.society it seeks to represent. Reminiscent of Tony Blair at the

:12:54. > :12:58.end, at the end he also got a standing ovation on both sides of

:12:59. > :13:04.the house, he had won three elections, something labour forgets

:13:05. > :13:10.every now and then, but Tony Blair never really liked the Collins

:13:11. > :13:17.playback of commons. And you sense that with his final moments, people

:13:18. > :13:20.often say that if you look back at the things in his career, it is

:13:21. > :13:28.often his performances in the Commons that Prince of his best

:13:29. > :13:32.moments, his response to the Bloody Sunday enquiry, an emotional

:13:33. > :13:36.statement he gave in the House of Commons after process that started

:13:37. > :13:40.long before he was in charge and the product of a different political

:13:41. > :13:45.generation. But the Commons is somewhere he has excelled, and his

:13:46. > :13:50.last line, clearly he had thought about it carefully, quoting back

:13:51. > :13:53.himself from his first ever Prime Minister's Questions, where he said

:13:54. > :13:59.the Tony Blair, you were the future once, today his last run, I was the

:14:00. > :14:06.future once. That is probably right that he was the future once but he

:14:07. > :14:12.is only 50. Youngest Prime Minister to leave number ten in a long time.

:14:13. > :14:18.In America, he could come back, in France, he could come back. I think

:14:19. > :14:21.his legacy will be so shaped by his biggest gamble on the referendum

:14:22. > :14:25.going wrong that it would be very difficult for him to, and I'm not

:14:26. > :14:29.sure he would want to. Part of the reason he is in the situation is

:14:30. > :14:32.because in the last general election campaign, a city wasn't going to

:14:33. > :14:36.stick it out and serve a third term, and that has shaped everything that

:14:37. > :14:44.that that's happened in his premiership. He didn't quite recover

:14:45. > :14:50.from that. Some helicopter shots, they are lining up outside

:14:51. > :14:55.Parliament. That is the inner courtyard of the Palace of

:14:56. > :15:01.Westminster, one of them. They are waiting for him to come out, some of

:15:02. > :15:07.the staff in the House of Commons. These are the pictures from Carriage

:15:08. > :15:11.Gate, he will be picked up, and they will make the short journey up to

:15:12. > :15:15.Downing Street before later on we expect him to come out and give some

:15:16. > :15:24.words before going to see the Queen today the formal part of today's

:15:25. > :15:29.seedings. -- proceedings. Theresa May is inheriting a government with

:15:30. > :15:32.a majority of 12. David Cameron is going to need to turn up and go

:15:33. > :15:36.through the lobbies for the government to get business done. The

:15:37. > :15:42.Theresa May will have the same issue, with the awkward squad, group

:15:43. > :15:45.of about 30 MPs, many of them Eurosceptics, who will be prepared

:15:46. > :15:49.to cause trouble if they don't like what she is doing said David

:15:50. > :15:53.Cameron, somebody in the middle of the Tory party, is going to have to

:15:54. > :15:57.be around, whether he chooses to speak from the backbenches or get

:15:58. > :16:04.involved in issues, we'll have to wait and see.

:16:05. > :16:11.You certainly sense that he feels now adjust from the look of him,

:16:12. > :16:16.pretty relieved, in a sense, that it's all over. I wonder if he will

:16:17. > :16:20.still be singing when he comes out. You might have thought he would have

:16:21. > :16:24.learned the lesson that, whenever there is a microphone near... Maybe

:16:25. > :16:29.he meant for us to hear him singing the song. Either that or we are

:16:30. > :16:34.fortunate that politicians always forget in the end. Theresa Villiers,

:16:35. > :16:39.all of the candidates for the leadership of your party positioned

:16:40. > :16:45.themselves to the centre, the centre-left talk of infrastructure

:16:46. > :16:50.funds, doing more for the north, workers, publishing ratios of top

:16:51. > :16:54.pay to average pay. If the Parliamentary Tory party signed on

:16:55. > :16:58.to all that kind of approach? Absolutely, I think there will be a

:16:59. > :17:03.lot of support for it. There is recognition that there are excesses

:17:04. > :17:07.in corporate pay that needs some constraints through more active

:17:08. > :17:11.shareholders, more transparency, giving more power to shareholders,

:17:12. > :17:14.so I think that is welcome. Wright would it command a majority of

:17:15. > :17:23.backbenchers and the party in the country? It is a one nation class

:17:24. > :17:26.agenda, if it is delivered. Also, I think we will see a lot about making

:17:27. > :17:30.the United Kingdom a very competitive place to do business,

:17:31. > :17:34.with the sort of ideas George Osborne has floated about reducing

:17:35. > :17:40.business taxes, and pushing investment into infrastructure will

:17:41. > :17:44.be a great way to create jobs. Let's assume, that's a big assumption,

:17:45. > :17:49.that the May government, which we will soon be talking about, does a

:17:50. > :17:53.lot of this. Doesn't that push Labour more to the left? They are

:17:54. > :17:57.occupying not just the centre-right, not just the centre, but the

:17:58. > :18:04.centre-left as well. How do you tackle that? I don't think Labour's

:18:05. > :18:08.political positioning should depend upon the Conservative government.

:18:09. > :18:11.Labour needs to be true to itself, despite what we believe in and put a

:18:12. > :18:15.positive case to the country. I believe at the next general

:18:16. > :18:19.election, whenever that is, however left the Conservatives choose to

:18:20. > :18:23.paint themselves, there will be a real choice before the electorate, a

:18:24. > :18:26.different approach to the economy and everything else. It is a big

:18:27. > :18:31.assumption that they do what they say when they are campaigning for

:18:32. > :18:37.the leadership. We have heard this week that a lot of the ideas Theresa

:18:38. > :18:42.May announced work Vince Cable's ideas during the coalition. Theresa

:18:43. > :18:45.May seems to have resolved on continuing David Cameron's mission

:18:46. > :18:49.of trying to tether the Conservatives to the centre ground.

:18:50. > :18:53.Whether they like it or not, Labour will have to respond to that

:18:54. > :18:56.context. Many people will want to stick to their principles, but the

:18:57. > :18:59.government sets the context by the things they put forward, that

:19:00. > :19:04.Westminster and politicians around the country have to respond to. And

:19:05. > :19:09.many people will think that Mr Cameron's legacy will be that he did

:19:10. > :19:13.move and put into concrete is party's position on the centre

:19:14. > :19:18.ground. If that goes down as his achievement, he will be pleased

:19:19. > :19:23.about that. Let's go back to JoCo in the House of Commons Central lobby.

:19:24. > :19:25.Thank you. The MPs are streaming out of the chamber behind me and

:19:26. > :19:31.everybody who was watching in the gallery. I have managed to grab two

:19:32. > :19:35.Conservative MPs, Ed Vaizey and Harriett Baldwin, both smiling.

:19:36. > :19:39.There were some jokes at the final PMQs, no doubt, and you would expect

:19:40. > :19:44.that, but David Cameron will be defined, his legacy, by Brexit.

:19:45. > :19:49.Brexit is the reason he is leaving, so to a large extent it will define

:19:50. > :19:52.his legacy, but what was good about PMQs today was the talk about the

:19:53. > :19:57.other things he has done, the stunning turnaround in his economy,

:19:58. > :20:00.his life chances strategy, social mobility, more jobs and

:20:01. > :20:05.opportunities in this country, many more than when he started as Prime

:20:06. > :20:08.Minister. Theresa May will be the next Prime Minister. You backed

:20:09. > :20:15.Michael Gove. Are you regretting that? That's very helpful to remind

:20:16. > :20:20.me of that. Harriet backed Theresa May. I'm pleased to read in the

:20:21. > :20:25.newspapers today that Theresa May will promote a lot of women. It

:20:26. > :20:30.would be fantastic to see a cabinet that is gender balanced. And you

:20:31. > :20:35.hope to be in that cabinet? Not at all. I am pleased that Theresa is

:20:36. > :20:38.taking over, because she did so much to bring more women into the party,

:20:39. > :20:45.but we should also credit David Cameron with that. He did a lot,

:20:46. > :20:49.with Women To Win, and there are now four times as many women MPs in the

:20:50. > :20:54.Conservative Party as when he took over as leader. I think we are

:20:55. > :20:56.showing pictures now of David Cameron leaving the Houses of

:20:57. > :21:01.Parliament. He will be making a short journey back to number ten

:21:02. > :21:04.Downing St before he goes to the Queen to tender his resignation.

:21:05. > :21:08.People can watch that as it is happening. Let's talk about the next

:21:09. > :21:12.government and what it will look like. You talked about promoting

:21:13. > :21:17.women, and there isn't doubt that Theresa May did a lot to mental and

:21:18. > :21:20.help women in Parliament. What should be our main priority in this

:21:21. > :21:26.government? Should it just be about EU negotiations is to mock she has

:21:27. > :21:32.articulated clearly that she wants the economy to work for everybody.

:21:33. > :21:35.But everybody says that. One thing she highlighted was the problems

:21:36. > :21:40.with corporate pay, she was trying to make a point that having someone

:21:41. > :21:44.who was a representative of employees on the board, like they do

:21:45. > :21:48.in Germany. She will have to focus very much on the economy, because we

:21:49. > :21:53.have to negotiate Brexit in a way that works for the opportunities it

:21:54. > :21:57.presents for the economy as well as the challenges, so that will be an

:21:58. > :22:02.important part of what she focuses on. Was it's a tactical error to say

:22:03. > :22:07.that EU foreign nationals would be up for negotiation? She has made

:22:08. > :22:11.very clear that what she wants to happen is for all of the over a

:22:12. > :22:18.million people living in other EU countries, that also get the same

:22:19. > :22:22.negotiation as people who are living here and have made their lives here,

:22:23. > :22:27.so it's important to remember that aspect in terms of the discussions

:22:28. > :22:32.with other countries. What about unifying the party? In the chamber,

:22:33. > :22:36.I spied Boris Johnson in the far corner. He couldn't have got further

:22:37. > :22:41.away from David Cameron, or maybe he was just late. That is going to be

:22:42. > :22:46.hard, isn't it? He was standing close to me, so maybe I will be a

:22:47. > :22:50.bridge. We are unified by Theresa May. She has outstanding qualities

:22:51. > :22:53.and a great record in government. I don't think that the Parliamentary

:22:54. > :22:57.party will brook anybody doing noises off at such a crucial time.

:22:58. > :23:01.What a true but should people like Boris Johnson and Michael Gove be in

:23:02. > :23:13.the party? Would that be a bridge into both sides? -- in the cabinet.

:23:14. > :23:18.Anybody should agree to support her, regardless of who you are. The

:23:19. > :23:22.changing of the guard is happening as we speak. With that, it is back

:23:23. > :23:29.to you, Andrew. Thank you, JoCo. We are just taking

:23:30. > :23:33.pictures from our helicopter as the Prime Minister, a small cavalcade

:23:34. > :23:39.leaves the House of Commons and head back to Downing Street, as he goes

:23:40. > :23:43.through, I think that it is the Foreign Office building, to go

:23:44. > :23:48.through into Downing Street for his final afternoon as Prime Minister of

:23:49. > :23:53.the United Kingdom. You can see the cars pulling up on the side street,

:23:54. > :23:57.not the main part of Downing Street, just there, as he begins his new

:23:58. > :24:02.life as a former pro Minister of this country. There are not many

:24:03. > :24:05.around, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown. I think that's about

:24:06. > :24:10.it. As a former Prime Minister, for the rest of his life, wherever he

:24:11. > :24:14.goes, whatever he does, he will have to have security with him. That

:24:15. > :24:18.never goes away. It's one of the penalties you pay for being leader

:24:19. > :24:23.of this country, and, of course, other countries as well. There he is

:24:24. > :24:27.going back into Downing Street, repairing later this afternoon to go

:24:28. > :24:31.and see the Queen at Buckingham Palace. He will be followed by

:24:32. > :24:37.Theresa May, who will go to see the Queen, to officially become the

:24:38. > :24:42.Prime Minister of this country. So one leadership power struggle, if I

:24:43. > :24:45.can put it that way, is gone. The Conservatives have chosen their

:24:46. > :24:50.leader. The country therefore has a new pro Minister. She can command a

:24:51. > :24:53.majority in parliament. That's what matters in this country. We await to

:24:54. > :24:58.see what happens with the other power struggle, which is for the

:24:59. > :25:04.leader of the Labour Party. That is already underway. Let's go now to

:25:05. > :25:09.mark global. He has been following this. -- Mark Lobel. There are some

:25:10. > :25:15.developments. What can you tell us about the latest news from the

:25:16. > :25:19.Labour leadership contest? From the front, chaotic battle meeting of the

:25:20. > :25:25.NEC yesterday, where Jeremy Corbyn one that decisive vote 14-18 to get

:25:26. > :25:30.automatically on the ballot, not needing 51 nominations from MPs and

:25:31. > :25:34.MEPs, I have been told by two senior sources that they are not going to

:25:35. > :25:37.challenge that because it was such a decisive victory. But the Biba

:25:38. > :25:42.atmosphere where this contest is being played out that there was a

:25:43. > :25:46.secret ballot because people were afraid of retaliation. -- free

:25:47. > :25:52.bridal atmosphere. Constituency meetings and branch meetings are

:25:53. > :25:55.going to be suspended. Anybody wanting to throw their hat in the

:25:56. > :26:01.ring us to do so by this time next week. We will have a result in about

:26:02. > :26:06.two months, on September the 24th, a day before Labour's annual

:26:07. > :26:11.conference. We have two challenges to Mr Corbyn at the moment, Owen

:26:12. > :26:13.Smith and Angela Eagle. Is there any talk that they may come under

:26:14. > :26:20.pressure to narrow themselves down to one, to have one challenger to Mr

:26:21. > :26:23.Corbyn? I have been told by a senior Labour figure that there is a 100%

:26:24. > :26:28.chance that they will be whittled down to one within a week, so we

:26:29. > :26:33.will see if that happens. What ever it is, they had good news from

:26:34. > :26:36.yesterday's meeting, because of what they decided but who is going to

:26:37. > :26:41.vote. They said they were going to freeze membership, so anybody who

:26:42. > :26:47.has joined up until January 12 this year, but the 130,000 people, the

:26:48. > :26:50.surge of members, who many thought what a majority pro-Corbyn, they

:26:51. > :26:55.will not get a vote, and that is because Jeremy Corbyn was not in the

:26:56. > :27:02.room when an amendment against that vote was held. He lost the block of

:27:03. > :27:06.votes. Secondly, the registered supporters are going to be taken

:27:07. > :27:11.away. From before, 51% of members and affiliated supporters for Jeremy

:27:12. > :27:16.Corbyn backed him, so it will be a tight contest on these terms. Thank

:27:17. > :27:20.you. We have just learned that Theresa May dined with the Chief

:27:21. > :27:24.Rabbi on the eve of becoming Prime Minister. That will probably leave

:27:25. > :27:28.the Archbishop of Canterbury a bit miffed, and she is a vicar's

:27:29. > :27:33.daughter, too. What's going on? Who is allowed to vote in the Labour

:27:34. > :27:36.leadership? Labour Party members enjoyed before the January cut-off

:27:37. > :27:41.date that has been mentioned can vote. Numbers of affiliated trade

:27:42. > :27:48.unions that pay the political levy can vote. People who register as

:27:49. > :27:51.supporters for ?25 in a 48-hour window between Thursday and Saturday

:27:52. > :27:55.can vote. I would like to see more people able to vote. I agreed with

:27:56. > :27:59.Angela Eagle, Neil Kinnock and others when they said that people

:28:00. > :28:04.should be able to join and vote now. I think we should have an open and

:28:05. > :28:08.inclusive process. People watching wanted to join the Labour Party

:28:09. > :28:13.fresh, they have not been members before, but they do that now, paying

:28:14. > :28:19.the full fee and get a vote? As it stands, they would have to become

:28:20. > :28:24.registered supporters in this 48 -- 48-hour window. The cost of that is

:28:25. > :28:29.disturbing, ?25, and we should not be pricing Labour supporters out of

:28:30. > :28:31.their vote. We will have to go and study the Labour voting rules. Thank

:28:32. > :28:37.you for being with us on this historic day. The one o'clock news

:28:38. > :28:41.is starting now. Jo and I will be here tomorrow at noon with all of

:28:42. > :28:45.the big political stories of the day. There will be continuing

:28:46. > :28:50.coverage of political events here as we move from Prime Minister Cameron

:28:51. > :28:56.to Prime Minister May, and both of them visit the Queen later this

:28:57. > :28:58.afternoon. Keep tuned to BBC News and BBC One for all of these events.

:28:59. > :29:01.Bye-bye.