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It's been 26 years since Britain's first woman

Today our second woman Prime Minister will begin her tenure.

The task facing Theresa May is no less daunting: to heal

the wounds in her party, unite the country and to chart

the future for Britain outside the EU.

Morning folks - welcome to the Daily Politics.

So we say farewell Prime Minister Cameron,

Theresa May will enter Downing Street later

She has promised a "bold positive vision" for a country that works

The But what does that mean and what will it look like?

David Cameron left Downing Street earlier this morning to head over

to the House of Commons for his final Prime

We'll have all the action live from midday.

Jeremy Corbyn WILL automatically be on the ballot for the Labour

Meanwhile a new contender - Owen Smith - says he will also

And I'm in the central lobby of the Houses of Parliament

getting all the reaction from the key political players.

All that in the next hour and a half and joining us for this historic

occasion are the current Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa

Villiers, and the Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon.

Now, it's a busy day ahead here in Westminster.

Prime Minister left demonstrate a while ago for his final visit to the

Commons as Prime Minister for PMQ 's, that is coming live at noon. Mr

Cameron was the youngest Prime Minister for 198 years, he leaves

office still under the age of 50 and has been replaced by an older woman,

Theresa May is 59. She has ruled out a snap election, and that is

probably the last thing that Labour would want at this moment anyway. We

expect that the Prime Minister, when he has said his goodbyes in the

Commons, to go back to Downing Street and leave the palace at

around 5pm tonight, when he gets to the palace he informs the Queen of

his formal resignation. He is then no longer Prime Minister. Shortly

after that, Theresa May will be taken to the palace to do the

traditional kissing of hands, a symbolic signal that this is the new

Prime Minister. When she leaves Buckingham Palace to head to Downing

Street, she will be the Prime Minister of the UK. She will go back

to Downing Street and we expect her there to say a few words before she

goes through that famous door. A busy and historic day here in

Westminster. Lots to cover. The BBC News Channel and BBC One will keep

you up-to-date. Jo Coburn is in the central lobby and she will be doing

a number of interviews all day. Let's hear what she has got to say.

It's ever meant to stay here, even more packed in central lobby than it

normally is for Prime Minister's Questions, because it is David

Cameron first-macro final session. Let's try and get a sense of the

occasion with Justine Greening. It is historic and it is the end of the

camera and Eire. He has his final PMQs, he has always been very good

at them, it would be interesting to see how he handles today's session.

He can be really proud of what he has achieved, I think, turning the

country round from bankruptcy, all sorts of opportunities for young

people, more women in the workplace than ever, but a real sense of

actually what is ahead of us now, a day when Theresa May will walk into

number ten. Will her government be radically different in style and

substance to David Cameron's? I think you will see a condition of

delivering the manifesto which we were elected to carry out last year,

and bringing her style and priorities to this government. What

are those? For someone like myself, coming from an ordinary background

in Rotherham, it's about wherever you start in can get to the top and

fulfil your potential. Then to some of the other areas she has focused

on, ending forced marriage, FGM, domestic violence, the reason has

always been a very tough Home Secretary but when she sees things

that are injustices that she doesn't accept, she will set out to change

them. Will her government at the top table... I certainly hope it will

show a lot of the great women we have got in our party. 50% Cabinet?

I think she will pull forward more women commit up to her witty and she

wants but I hope there are a lot of the great women, people like Karen

Bradley who have been fantastic in the Home Office, even people like

Anne Milton, they great colleagues to work with and have a real role to

play in these coming years for the Conservative government. I will let

you take your place, enjoy the last session for David Cameron. You will

be returning to central lobby later and I will talk to more of the key

players. There is never enough room for all of them at PMQs. The reason

the May government be different in policy? I think she will map out her

Baghram, they will be a lot of consistency because the reason, like

David Cameron, is driven by the opportunity to improve life chances,

to make sure we do all we can to back aspiration, ensure everyone has

the potential... Is able to fulfil their politician. But every

politician I've ever heard talks about that. Nobody is against that.

How will the government differ? She is obvious they day to focus on the

big challenges we have of building more homes for people to buy and

rent, ensuring we continue with our form of the welfare system, to back

those who work, ensuring we do everything to create the best

education system in the world. How it in that different from what they

David Cameron government says he has been trying to do? He has been tried

to build more homes, not very successfully, where has the

difference? There was consistency but also the opportunities to Reza

has as Prime Minister relate to our decision to leave the EU, the

research potential in terms of new trade deals with countries around

the world, a range of opportunities that will not open to David

Cameron's government and I'm sure she will seize them with enthusiasm.

Are you a principle about Theresa May as promised? When your party

sort itself out, will she be a formidable adversary as PM? The real

challenge for her, quite rightly people are celebrating the fact we

have our second female Prime Minister but the real challenge is

to pursue policies which don't personally adversely affect women

because the hostility and cuts agenda the government has pursued

has hit women. -- the austerity. But she doesn't have an easy job, she

has inherited an economy which is not in the good position George

Osborne wished it to be, so it won't be an easy ride. Maybe not but is

Labour principle about her? She will have a fresh start, she will have a

honeymoon with the party, maybe even with the country she was "A strong

position compared to Labour. The task for Labour is to unite, face

outwards and look forward to as putting a positive labour case to

the country rather than worrying about the Conservative Party. We

welcome to that. While the Tories look to unite

around their new leader, Theresa May, the Labour

Party is in turmoil. Last night, the party's ruling

executive narrowly voted to put Jeremy Corbyn's name on the upcoming

leadership ballot, without him That has angered many Labour MPs,

the vast majority of whom are openly After the decision was reached

by the National Executive Committee, Delighted to say the Labour Party

National Executive has decided that an incumbent is automatically

on the ballot paper, And we will be campaigning

on all the things that matter - the inequality and poverty that

exists in this country, the need to end the privatisation

of our National Health Service, the need to give real hope

and opportunity to young people That was sparked off by Angela

Eagle, who has already launched her challenge for the top job. This

morning a second Labour MP threw his hat into the ring.

The former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith said

he would be a radical and credible leader who could take

Because I think the Labour Party is in grave peril right now.

There is a danger we are going to split and, if we were to split,

that would be a disaster for working people, because the Labour Party has

been the greatest vehicle for good for working people in this country

for a century and we cannot afford to allow it to fall by the wayside.

If I get to lead this party, we will be a credible but radical

We will be a powerful opposition to a Tory government that has not

left Britain stronger but has left Britain weaker in oh, so many ways.

Owen Smith, one of two to challenge Jeremy Corbyn, though I learned

there may be moves to whittle the challenge is down to one. This is

going to be a pretty nasty, personal leadership election, isn't it? It

shouldn't be and I hope it's not. But it's going to be. I'm really

glad that they and democratic attempt to deny Labour Party members

the length and breadth of the country of their fair and just right

to choose whichever leader they want has failed, but as Jeremy Corbyn has

said, this can't be nasty, it can't be divisive and it can't be

personal, let's concentrate on the issues. Let's look at what happened

at a Corbin rally in Kentish Town, last night. This is the shadow

Treasury Chancellor. The only good thing about it -

as plotters, they're BLEEP useless. So, John McDonnell, the number two

in your party. Calling Labour MPs conniving and plotting. And not to

use the full exclusive, useless. What bit is the kind, gentler

politics about that? It was some sort of comedy Valley last night,

it's not a question of whether he is a good comedian, it is about whether

the positive, and the austerity agenda we can forward. What I will

say generally is its time for all Labour MPs to calm down, take a deep

breath, stop infighting, support whoever you wish in the leadership

campaign, campaign hard for them. And then focus on the task for the

Labour Party, which is to hold this Conservative government to account.

It wasn't just John McDonnell last night, whether he's a comedian or

Shadow Chancellor, others are backing Jeremy Corbyn who said that

Tony Blair should F you, he said. He said the new Kinnock was, a disgrace

to Wales. -- new Kinnock. And David Ward said some Labour MPs, are

bloody Tories who should join the Sunni Cabinet. I ask again, what

happened to the kinder, gentler politics or are they all comedian? I

don't think any Labour MPs should leave the parliamentary Labour

Party. I don't think we should be in any way suggesting a split, but let

me say that if the national exhibit of committee last night had voted to

deny the fair and just chant from Labour members across the country to

vote... I think the Labour Party would have split. Is it not a sign

of how rancorous this campaign is expected to be that local party

constituency organisations have been told not to have meetings? I think

the Labour Party has always been and should always be a coalition of

socialists and social Democrats. Why can you not have meetings? The NEC

thinks the Labour Party has enough on its plate... It's worried about

how bad is going to be. Many don't have meetings in any event in

August. They also don't have leadership campaigns although they

are going to have two in a row. If you joined the Labour Party last

year, maybe to vote for Mr Corbyn, do you get to vote this year are you

it by the cut-off date of January? If you joined as a full member last

year, you are entitled to vote. What about the ?3 sign ups? My

understanding is that the people who joined the ?3 last year, if they

didn't join as full members, would have two Reed register and pay ?25.

ISU Mr Corbyn and his campaign will be organising that? I want an

election process that is open and inclusive. I don't want to see

Labour supporters prised out of having their say, so the ?25

disturbs me somewhat. If you sign up to join the Labour Party, and we are

told 130,000 have joined since the referendum, and I think they paid

?40, they are now being told they can't vote unless they pay another

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

election. Are you not going back on that? It wasn't small print, it was

big print. It said, if you join, you will be able to vote. I know that

Angela Eagle, Neil Kinnock and others were encouraging people to

join. It disturbs me greatly. I'd like to see that looked at again. We

are not afraid of more people involved. We are not afraid of ideas

or debate. Let's make it as inclusive or participate we as

possible. Do you detect that there is still massive support for Mr

Corbyn among the rank and file members of the party? I do, but I

don't take any election for granted, so what Jeremy and his team have got

to do is put out a positive agenda for a Labour government, what it

will do, and how we will get a Labour government. Labour is in

turmoil, it is maybe going to the courts over the membership and who

can vote, the campaign goes all the way through until the new leader is

announced on the 24th, we don't know what will happen now, there could

still be a schism or a split. How do you call an election? We believe

that we need stability. We've got a mandate for a five-year term. I

think it's right that we fulfil that mandate and carry on until the

election date that has been set and we make a success of leaving the

European Union. So no election? We will hold that against you if you

change your mind. Just looking at my watch, 12 minutes until Prime

Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron's final one. It's go back to the

Commons and JoCo. We are going to talk a bit more

about the Labour leadership. With me is Stephen Kinnock. He was among the

first of the Parliamentary Labour Party to call for Jeremy Corbyn to

step down and resign cost of every attempt you and your colleagues are

made to prevent Jeremy Corbyn being on the ballot for the next

leadership contest has failed. It was a decision of the NEC. I

personally don't understand the logic, but it is what it is and we

have now got to move forward. We have a leadership contest. We are

now battling for the soul of the Labour Party. I genuinely believe we

will win. Will be party split? There is only one Labour Party and we will

continue as a Labour Party. Angela Eagle has got what it takes to win.

She's got the experience. She is the kind of person we need to steady the

ship. She is a persuader, not a protester. Brexit has changed the

face of British politics. Angela has the skills and experience to carry

out the negotiations, not just the wave a placard in a corridor. So you

see John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn and their supporters as they protest

movement, not the real Labour Party? With all due respect to Jeremy and

John, they have spent their careers in rooms and rallies where everybody

agrees with them. We are in the middle of a national crisis and we

need a serious politician, Angela Eagle. But with the evidence we

have, Jeremy Corbyn will win another Labour leadership contest. If you

look at people's mailbags, a lot of my colleagues, many members are

saying, I voted for Jeremy last time, but I am realising he is not

up to the job, failing to hold the Prime Minister to account at PMQs,

hopeless on the refugee crisis, hopeless in the referendum, and

coming out the morning after the referendum to say that we should

trigger article 50 immediately, as if he was asking Islington council

to change the streetlights. It is extraordinary and I think it shows

how out of touch with reality he is. But he still could win. If he does

win a second leadership contest, will you and your colleagues shut

up? I will serve my constituents and I'd be happy and honoured to do that

from the backbenches. You wouldn't serve in a Jeremy Corbyn Shadow

Cabinet. I do not have confidence in Jeremy is a leader and you can't

serve on the front bench without that. We don't have a front bench at

the moment. We are not able to form a credible opposition. I hope that

our members who vote over the coming weeks and months think about the

future of our democracy. If you can't form a front bench, you can't

form an opposition. What do you say that Owen Smith, who is also

challenging for the leadership? I genuinely hope that we will have

only one candidate to campaign against Jeremy, and I hope that

candidate will be Angela Eagle, but I win is a very talented politician

and he brings a lot to the table, so let's see what happens. -- Owen

It will be a long hot summer, perhaps without the heat.

It is all right for you, in air-conditioned splendour! We are

struggling. You know it is important when there are helicopters above,

and there are helicopters above today. Let's have a look at the

shops from the helicopter, this glorious July day, with Westminster,

the Houses of Parliament, the palace of Westminster in all of its glory.

Very shortly, the Prime Minister will be going in there for his final

PMQs. The press is here in massive numbers in College Green. I am not

sure if you could see us. If we could, we would wave at you.

European media, British media, American media. Once again,

Westminster, the centre of media attention for these historic events.

David Cameron's final PMQs. Before we do the build-up to that, let's

remind ourselves of his time in office, including some of those key

Parliamentary moments. Prime Minister, do you regret, when

asked what your favourite joke was, you replied, Nick Clegg? What

happened on bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It

was wrong. We simply cannot have a situation

where a failed pariah state festers on Europe's southern border.

Calm down, dear, calm down. Calm down.

HECKERLING Order, order.

What is on offer is not in Britain's interests.

I am a marriage man, and the great thing about last night's vote is

that two gay people who love each other will now be able to get

married, and I think that's an important advance.

It is clear to me that the British Parliament, reflecting the views of

the British people, does not want to see British military action. I get

that and the government will act accordingly.

I take full responsibility for employing Andy Coulson.

I think people can feel it is a bit like a general election. If you are

fed up the Tories, give them a kick. This is totally different.

I can tell him what is happening under this government, inflation is

down, unemployment is down, the economy is growing, the deficit is

down. We have faced some tough times in this country but we have a

government which is on the side of hard-working people.

As he is one of the causes of the deficit, I think we've just found

the first ever example of political maso- sadism. Order, we know what

the Prime Minister meant. I have been to see the Queen and I will now

form a majority Conservative government. The question before the

house today is how we keep the British people safe from the threat

posed by Isil. I think I know what my mother would say. I think she'd

look across the dispatch box and she'd say, put on a proper suit, do

up your tie and sing the national anthem. Within the last hour, I have

negotiated a deal to give the United Kingdom special status. I believe

this is enough for me to recommend that the United Kingdom remain in

the European Union, having the best of both worlds. So, a 4-point lead

for leaving the EU. I think the country requires fresh leadership to

take it in this direction. The times of David Cameron. Laura

Kuenssberg joins us. British politics is a brutal old business.

He is a man who won an overall majority against the odds only a

year ago. We thought he would stay until spring 2019. He lost the

referendum still thought he could stay until September. That didn't

work out, he has gone this afternoon, the removal vans are

already taking the furniture out. We make people moved house, which is

very stressful, and we make the Prime Minister do that in front of

the world's media. This is a brutal, rapid process that this time that

happened at 1 million miles an hour, rather than the normal case it would

happen at. So rapid that wasn't the helping to move the furniture? It

looked like it, but when he almost skipped back into number ten,

whistling a tune, I wonder if it has been doing the cooking. As we head

towards Prime Minister's Questions, one of the things were saying about

David Cameron is, for all that his plans have gone completely right in

the last couple of weeks, he is a Prime Minister who part of his

memory will be that he really did enjoy Prime Minister's Questions, he

is good at it, he has done it 146 times, a better attendance record

than any recent Prime Minister of turning up to do those questions

every week, and it tells you something about him. The reason

partly he is good at it and enjoys it is because he spent 20 years both

as a Tory staffer and then an opposition politician, then

opposition leader, every Wednesday being consumed by PMQs, learning the

games, learning how to get your way through it. He has been good at it

and he enjoyed it and that tells you something about the kind of

politician is. He is a creature of Westminster. Has worked here in one

way or another since the early 20s. -- his early 20s. When Margaret

Thatcher was forced to leave, the final appearances, she was on

steroids. Mr Cameron may be the same, but a difficult gig for Jeremy

Corbyn, who has got a leadership contest and needs to set the right

tone. Indeed, not least because John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor,

has appalled some MPs by last night save on stage, I don't know if you

have discussed it earlier, with the bleeping, so plenty of leaps on the

show. So Jeremy Corbyn, who has repeatedly said he wants to bring

the party together, and that if Labour MPs have got a problem they

should come and talk to him, though many of them have been telling him

to go for months and he hasn't listened, he needs to strike that

tone today but, amidst this ceremonial occasion, the Prime

Minister's final one and, if we know anything about David Cameron, I am

sure he will have a vintage PMQs joke ready to unleash the opposition

leader. I think some of PMQs will be a bit like a sort of tribute, isn't

David Cameron marvellous, does the Prime Minister agree with me how

marvellous is... Favourite acts and questions. 48 hours ago... I have

lost all sense of time. Theresa May was planning a two-month leadership

campaign. Now she has to appoint a cabinet tonight. Do we have any

indications of who is in her mind for the top jobs? Does Theresa

Villiers have a job? Will she be appointing Richard Burgon? She was

praising Theresa May forcefully this morning, so you never know. This

whole thing has been Considine at. Theresa May is the kind of

politician who likes to take her time. That privilege has been taken

away. So, yes, of course, there are Westminster guessing games going on.

For fun. But they are just guessing games. For fun, briefly, here are a

few of them, there is a widespread expectation that Jordan scored will

leave the Treasury, -- George Osborne will leave. The garment will

move in, former accountant, safe pair of hands, -- Philip Hammond. He

understands money. That is widely expected to happen. George Osborne's

allies believe that that will be a job swap and he will go to be the

Foreign Secretary. One of the most interesting thing about the

reshuffle, I think more interesting than the fact there are likely to be

many more women in the cabinet, because Theresa May isn't going to

give people a job just because they are a woman. She will appoint the

people she thinks are best placed. What does she do about that trio who

represent the best and worst of the last ten years of Tory politics,

Boris Johnson, George Osborne and Michael Gove? What does she do with

them? Does she play them all out, which would send a very strong

message? Does she keep them for I know the whole house will join me

in congratulating Andy Murray, Heather Watson, on their stunning

success at Wimbledon. This morning I have meetings with ministerial

colleagues and others. Other than one meeting with Her Majesty The

Queen this afternoon, the diary for the rest of my day is remarkably

light. May I echo his congratulations to Andy Murray and

all the other winners. May we thank the Prime Minister for all his hard

work and his leadership. And particularly his commitment to the

union and to Northern Ireland, and swimming in not on, maybe he would

like to come and swim in luck and eight, we look forward to working

with the next Prime Minister. I'm told there are lots of roles out

there, there is the England football team... There is Top Dear, even

across the pond, there is a role that needs filling. If I can go to

my pet subject, Brexit really threatens. Really threatens the

union. Will he work with his successors to ensure we have

somebody who will pull together all the countries of the union and the

overseas territories and make it so we all work and thrive together?

Festival that mistaken for his kind remarks and fascinating suggestions

for future jobs, I think most of them sound harder than this one. --

first of all. I do believe Northern Ireland is stronger than it was a

the full devolution of justice and home affairs, delivered under this

government, the seminal report, record inward investment, I care

passionately about our united kingdom, we do need to make sure

that as we leave the European Union, we work out how to keep the benefits

of the Common travel area, hard work is being done now with civil servant

in Northern Ireland and Whitehall and also the Republic, that what

needs to quicken. I would like to also paid tribute to my honourable

friend and the hard-working as the leading this great country for the

last few years. His lasting legacy will include supporting the Kurds,

whose peshmerga are bravely fighting Daesh in all our interest. Having

visited them on the front line,, although our training are crucial,

the injuries could be reduced with additional equipment like body

armour, respirators and front line medical facilities and we could

possibly provide beds in a specialist hospital in Birmingham

today most seriously injured. Does he agree this is a relatively small

investment that would make a huge difference to our allies in the

common fight to defeat the evil of terrorism? Thirst -- first of all

thank you for your words. The Kurds are doing valuable work against the

ash in Iraq and Syria. I will look carefully at his suggestion of using

the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, who have excellent facilities for

battlefield facilities, our army are helping the peshmerga but we will

look and see if more can be done. Let's be frank, the strategy is

working on the Daesh is on the back foot, its finances have been hit,

more than 25,000 fighters have been killed, desertion has increased and

the flow of foreign fighters has fallen by 90%. I have always said

this will take a long time to work in Iraq and Syria but we must stick

at it. Jeremy Corbyn. Can I start gradually the Prime Minister in pain

trouble to be winners at Wimbledon, -- paying tribute. Also I think it

would be nice if we can gradually did Serena Williams on her fantastic

achievement as well. -- congratulated. It's only right that

after six years as Prime Minister, we thank him for his service. By

that and is agreed with him but some achievements of his I do want to

play recognition to, one is helping to secure the release of shack army

from quantum Bay and legislating to achieve equal marriage within our

society, and I'm sure he will acknowledge that Labour boats helped

get it through on that occasion! Will they acknowledge some concern

that the way homelessness has risen for the last six years and looks

like it will continue to rise in this country? Let me thank him for

his kind remarks, I would join him in pain should be to Serena Williams

who has now knocked Steffi Graf's amazing record of 22 grand slams,

has overtaken that. The case in Guantanamo Bay was one that be

raised again and again with the US government and I'm pleased it was

resolved. And also what is it about equal marriage, there are 30,000

dead people in our country when the last six years have been able to get

married and that is real progress, I will never forget the day in number

ten when one of the people who works very close to the front door said to

me, I'm not that interested in politics but because of something

you're not have done, I'm able to marry the person I have loved all my

life this weekend and that was one of my favourite moments in this job.

As for homelessness, it is still 10% below the peak saw on the labour but

the key is building more homes, we have put 7000 since I became Prime

Minister but the key to building more homes is programmes, reforms to

the planning system, but the key is a strong economy. I had to what the

Home Secretary has been saying over the past few days and she has been

saying it is harder than ever for young people to buy their first

house. Does the Prime Minister think this is because of record low

house-building for his government's apparent belief that ?450,000 is an

affordable starter home? Let me say how warmly I congratulate the Home

Secretary on becoming leader of the Conservative Party. When it comes to

women prime ministers, I'm pleased to be able to say pretty soon it

will be 2-0. And not a pink bus insight! On the issue of... Of

housing and homelessness, 700,000 homes have been delivered. He asks

about this issue of affordability which is absolutely key. When I

became Prime Minister, because of what had happened to the mortgage

market, first-time buyer of the needed to have as much as ?30,000 to

put a deposit down. Because of the conversion of help to buy and shared

ownership, some people are able to get on the housing ladder with as

little as ?2000 and with a low mortgage rate, the new houses we are

building, we are making good progress. The malaise seems deeper

still. The Home Secretary said, talking of the economy, so that it

really does work for everyone, because it is apparent to anyone in

touch with the real world that people do not feel our economy works

that way. Isn't she right that too many people coming to many places in

Britain, feel their economy has been destroyed in towns they are in

because the industries have gone, there are levels of high and implode

or underemployment and a deep sense of malaise? Don't we all need to

address that question? If we're going to talk about the economic

record, let's get the faxed straight. We have cut the deficit,

there are 2 million more people in work, almost a million more

businesses, 2.9 million apprenticeships have been trained

under this government and it comes to property, 300,000 fewer people in

relative poverty, 100,000 fewer children in relative poverty. To be

accused of sloth in delivery, let's just take the last week we have both

been having, we got on with it, we about resignation, nomination,

competition and current nation, they haven't even decided what the rules

are yet! -- coronation. If they ever got into power, to take

about a year to work out who would sit where! Democracy is an exciting

and splendid thing and I'm enjoying every moment of it! The Home

Secretary, Mr Speaker, talking of the economy... Again, she said many

people find themselves exploited by unscrupulous bosses to stop I can't

imagine who she is referring to! But in his... In his hand discussion...

In his handover discussions with the Home Secretary, could enlighten us

as to whether or not there is any proposal to take on agency Britain

by banning zero hours contracts, clamping down on umbrella companies,

repealing the trade union act or preferably all three? He's right

that democracy is a splendid thing, I have to agree with him. Let me

answer directly on expedition in the workplace. It is this government at

the first introduced a living wage stop -- exploitation. It is

massively increased the power of the gang masters authority, there are

fines for businesses that don't pay the minimum wage and more policing

and prosecutions taking place although those things have changed

under government. As for zero hours contracts, they account for less

than one in four people in work, 60% of people in them do not want to

work more hours and it was this government that did something the

Labour Party never did, which was to ban exclusive so hours contracts. 13

years of them committed a coalition Conservative government to do it.

Let me say something about the democratic process of leadership

elections, because I did say a couple of weeks ago, I am beginning

to admire his tenacity! He's reminding me of the Black Knight in

Monty Python's holy Grail. He has been kicked seven times but keeps

saying, it's only a flesh wound! I admire that. Mr Speaker, I would

like the Prime Minister to address another issue that the house voted

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

a question from somebody who deserves an answer. And she says, I

would like to know if there is any possibility that a European Union

citizen who has lived in Britain for 30 years can have their right of

permanent residents revoked or deported, depending on the Brexit

negotiations. There has been no clear answer to this question. It is

one that worries a large number of people and it would be good if in

his last question Time, he could at least offer some assurance to those

people. Let me reassure Nina, there is absolutely no chance of that

happening to somebody in those circumstances, we're working hard to

get a guarantee for EU citizens that they will have their rights

respected, all those who have, to this country. The only circumstance

I could ever in visit a future government trying to undo that

guarantee would be if British citizens in other European countries

didn't have their rights respected, so it's important to have

reciprocity. The new Prime Minister will be working together guarantee

as fast as we can. I have got an e-mail as well. I am not making this

up, I promise was to buy but this on the 62 of September 2015 from

someone called Judith and she said, please, please, keep witty and not

triumphalism during the first B with Jeremy Corbyn. She said because

Tom Watson, who may oust Jeremy Corbyn, is a very different kettle

of fish. He is far more dangerous in the long-term. She goes on, so

sensible, sober, polite answers, let him create his own party disunity.

After this is over, I have got to find Judith and find that what on

earth happened next! Mr Speaker... I have had the pleasure of asking the

Prime Minister 179 questions. Thank you, there are plenty more to come

to his successor, don't worry about that! But before I ask him the last

question, could I just put on record and wish him well as he leaves this

office and also wish his family well, Samantha and their children,

because I think we should all recognise that while many of us

really do enjoy our jobs and political rights, is the loved ones

nearest to us and our families who make enormous sacrifices that we can

do this. I would also like to pass on thanks to his mum for his advice

about ties and suits and so on. It's extremely kind of her, I would be

grateful if you would pass that on to her personally. And I reflected

on the lesson she offered. There is a rumour I want him to deal

with. There is a rumour going around that his departure has been

carefully Corey Grant so he can slip aimlessly into the vacancy created

-- created this morning on Strictly by Len Goodman's departure. Is that

his next career? -- carefully choreographed. I can assure him that

is not the case. I thank him for the kind words and wishes to my amazing

wife, Samantha, and my lovely children, who are watching from the

gallery this morning. He is right, the pressure off and bears hardest

on those around us in these jobs, and let me send my best to his

family. I will leave it to others to work out how many questions are

answered from this dispatch box. Because of your belief in letting

everyone have their say, I think I have done a record of 92 hours of

statements from this dispatch box, as well as some very enjoyable

liaison committee appearances and other things. I will certainly said

his good wishes back to my mother. He seems to have taken her advice

and is looking absolutely splendid today. But it gives me the

opportunity to put a rumour to rest as well, even more serious than the

strictly come dancing one, and he will appreciate this, because the

rumour somehow that I don't love Larry. I do, and I have photographic

evidence. Sadly, I can't take Larry with me. He belongs to the house and

the staff love him very much, as do I. Is my right honourable friend

aware that, in 33 years in this house, watching five prime ministers

and several ex-prime ministers, I have seen him achieve a mastery of

that dispatch box unparalleled in my time, not just because of his

command of detail, his wit, but because he commands the respect of

friend and foe alike, who know that he is driven not just by legitimate

political ambitions and ideas, but by a sense of duty which always

leads him to try to make this country more prosperous, more

solvent, more tolerant, more flair and more free, and he will command

the respect of generations to come. Those words mean a lot from my right

honourable friend, who spent so much time in this house. It is a special

place and prime ministers questions, for all of its theatrics, does have

a purpose, because it is time every week when the Prime Minister has to

know everything going on in Whitehall, and often you find out

things which you want to stop pretty quickly before 12 o'clock on

Wednesday. I believe politics is about public service in the national

interest, which is what I have always tried to do. This session has

some admirers around the world. When I did his job and I met Mayor

Bloomberg in New York. Everybody knew him and nobody had a clue who I

was until eventually somebody said, hey, Cameron, Prime Minister's

Questions. We love your show! Thank you very much. I join the Prime

Minister and the leader of the Labour Party in paying tribute to

all of the winners at Wimbledon. This week, we mark the 21st

anniversary of the Srebonica genocide. It is one of the few

political causes that the Prime Minister and I both wholeheartedly

support and I hope he will be impressing on his successor the

importance of supporting the Remembering Srebonica organisation

and all of its good work, notwithstanding our differences, I

genuinely extend my best personal wishes to the Prime Minister and his

family and I wish them all of the best. However... The Prime

Minister's legacy will undoubtedly be that he has taken us to the brink

of being taken out of the European Union, so we will not be applauding

his premiership on this. What advice has he given his successor on taking

Scotland out of the EU against the wishes of Scottish voters? First,

let me join the right honourable gentleman in paying tribute to all

of those who lost their lives in Srebonica and making sure we

commemorate this every year. This year, there will be a service in the

office where commemoration will be given, test dummy will be read out,

and we should think of it alongside the terrible events of modern

history such as the Holocaust. -- testimony will be read out. In this

house, there is sometimes a price for nonintervention, and we should

remember that. In terms of what he says about Scotland and the United

Kingdom and Europe, my advice to my successor, a brilliant negotiator,

is that we should try to be as close to the EU as we can be, or the

benefits of trade, cooperation and security. The channel will not get

any wider once we leave the EU and that is what we should seek, which

will be good for the UK and Scotland. The Prime Minister's

successor is well known in Scotland and across the front pages because

of a threat to deport a loved and light family from the Highlands. Her

first action in her premiership is likely to be imposing Trident

against the wishes of every MP in Scotland. Meanwhile, she says she

plans to plough on with Brexit, regardless of the fact that Scotland

voted to remain in the EU. How does the outgoing Prime Minister think

that all of this will go down in Scotland? Specifically on the Graham

family, Mrs Brain came to this country to study for a Scottish

history degree, she completed and her husband and son came as

dependents. We have given them an extension until August one put in an

application for a work visa. On Trident, there will a vote in this

house. Many people in Scotland support our nuclear deterrent,

maintaining it for the jobs which come in Scotland. He asks about the

record of this government when it comes to Scotland. 143,000 more

people in work in Scotland, massive investment in the renewable

industries in Scotland, the two biggest warships ever built in our

history, built in Scotland. A powerhouse parliament, a referendum

that was legal, decisive and fair and, I might add, a Scotsman winning

Wimbledon twice while I was Prime Minister. Never mind indie two. I

think it is time for Andy two. I would like to thank Prime Minister

for the leadership he has shown, particularly in his support of women

within the Conservative Party. The Prime Minister's legacy for me,

however, and for fellow cancer survivors is the personal support he

has shown for the cancer drug fund. However, today, I would like to ask

him to show that same support for those who have been affected by the

contaminated blood. Would he please update the house as to whether they,

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

She is right to raise this issue of contaminated blood. I can today

announce that we will be spending the extra ?125 million we have

identified in a much fairer and more conferences scheme, to guarantee

that all of those affected will for the first time receive a regular

payment. This will include all of those with appetisers stage one, who

will receive ?3500 per year, rising to ?4000 by the end of the year.

Annual payments will increase over the lifetime of the Parliament and

will enhance the support for those who have been read or those who will

be in future, significantly boosting the money for discretionary

payments. -- those who have been bereaved. Last year, I apologised.

Today, I will provide them with the support. While it isn't right to

pick out two people, coming to constituency surgeries, making your

point to your MP, campaigning as these sufferers have done, in my

case, David Leadbetter and Hugh Davies coming to my surgery and

saying, this mustn't stand, I know that not everybody will be satisfied

in what is being done, but it just show our democracy working and

compassion in religion to this problem. The Prime Minister came to

office promising to keep the UK's triple-A rating, and top-down NHS

reorganisations and to stop his party banging on about Europe. How

would he say that is gone? In terms of the economic record, 2.5 million

more jobs, the deficit cut by two thirds, 2.9 million apprenticeships,

a million more businesses, a growth rate that has been at the top of the

developed world, all of that because of the choices we made. Because we

did that, we have been able to back our NHS with a 10% funding increase,

over 10 billion in real terms in this Parliament. As for Europe, we

have to settle these issues. I think it is right, when you are trying to

settle a big constitutional issue, you don't just rely on Parliament,

you ask the people as well and we made and we kept a promise. I am

sorry if this turns out to be my last question to the Prime Minister,

but I want to thank him for everything he has done for my

constituency, where every school is now good or outstanding and the

jobless total is down 64% since he took office. Can I encourage him to

return to the big society agenda I know he is so passionate about? Can

I ask him if he remembers saying, shortly before coming -- becoming

Prime Minister, politicians are a mixture of egotism and altruism and

you hope that the right one wins out so people do the right thing rather

than the politically convenient thing. It seems to me he has stayed

on the right side of that divide, not least in the manner of his

departure, and I think the country will miss him a great deal. I think

my friend for his kind remarks. When it comes to education, there is a

strong record to build on. We have got 1.4 million children in good or

outstanding schools since 2010. We have seen the free schools movement

really take off. I visited one yesterday that is outstanding, as a

court of them are, which is in amazing record. -- a quarter of

them. As for the big society, yes, we should use a strong economy to

build a bigger and stronger society. One thing we are doing is

introducing National Citizen Service, 200,000 young people have

taken part in that programme and I hope by the end of this Parliament

it will be the norm for 16-year-olds to take part. We talk about the soft

skills that are necessary to give people real life chances. National

Citizen Service will help that. Can I thank the Prime Minister for the

courteous way he has always answered questions I have managed to ask him.

I have always listened carefully to his answers, but until I had two eye

operations, I wasn't able to see him clearly. If he is concerned that I

am about the newspaper reports that people who are not entitled to NHS

cataract operations are jumping the queue and stopping people who are

entitled to NHS operations having that treatment? I will look

carefully... First, I think him kindly for his remarks. I have tried

to answer questions from this dispatch box. It is difficult

sometimes when you haven't seen the specific story, and I happened here.

I recall that we are investing in these cataract operations and the

number receiving them is going up but I will look carefully this

afternoon at the question he asks about the danger of queue jumping

and get back to them. -- back to him. Under the leadership of my

right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, in my constituency,

unemployment has dropped from 5.1% in May 2010 to 1.9 2010 in May this

year. A record to be proud of and one I would like to thank him for.

Does my right honourable friend agree with me that this has only

been possible thanks to his firm focused on jobs, apprenticeships and

skills, a strong economy and investment? The figures are

remarkable, when a constituency is getting to 1.9% unemployment, that

is very close to full employment and it is remarkable. What we have done

with apprenticeships was 2.4 million in the last Parliament, an extra

500,000 already in this Parliament, towards the target of 3 million in

this Parliament, and I'm confident we can achieve that. These are not

just numbers but real people who have experience of the workplace,

who are learning a trade and taking first steps in a career. What I want

is, when they get back to Korea, not only do they have the national

minimum wage but they don't get to pay income tax until they are

earning that wage. We have taken the largest people out of poverty...

This week is black country week. Yesterday, Black Country manufactory

is were in Parliament demonstrating the high quality products that are

exported worldwide. Will the outgoing Prime Minister impress upon

the incoming Prime Minister the huge importance of maintaining access to

the EU single market during exits negotiations, in order that we can

maximise the Black Country I absolutely agree. We have seen

many thousands more in work under this government and we have seen a

renaissance in manufacturing, particularly the automotive sector,

some of which is in the Black Country. It is vital that we have

proper access to the single market and he is right, this is one of the

things we have to focus on. I want automotive, aerospace, high-quality

manufacturing firms, to go from strength to strength, making sure we

get that vital access to Europe. Ten years ago today, I was applying to

become Conservative parliamentary candidate for Labour held at

Worcester as my right honourable friend was uniting the opposition.

Like so many on these benches, I entered this house on the wiki

became Prime Minister and since then, unemployment in Worcester has

halved, apprenticeships have doubled, we have more good and

outstanding schools beginning to receive fairer funding, wages are up

and taxes are down, can I thank him for all his service to our nation

and for the legacy of improved life chances he will leave behind? Can I

thank him for his kind remarks. We are seeing unemployment fall in all

of these constituencies, the claimant count has gone down, more

important is we now see 450,000 fewer children in households where

nobody works. The effect of having a parent or a loved one in work,

helping to put food on the table and provide a role model for their

children is really what this is all about stop. Between broken vows,

Brexit and the likely renewal of weapons of mass destruction in the

Clyde,... Prime Minister... The Prime Minister has done more for

Scottish independence than many of us on these benches had ever hoped

to do. So as he contemplates a move to Aberdeen share, could the Prime

Minister now make his commitment to Scottish independence official by

visiting SNP .org/ join. But I would take to the honourable lady and

although the SNP members of Parliament is when you have Lord

Smith himself saying that the vowed to create a powerhouse parliament

was kept, the SNP should pay attention to that and recognise a

promise was made and a promise was delivered. I have talked many times

at this blog is about creating this powerhouse parliament, what I

haven't seen is the SNP using any of the powers they have now got. Mr

Kenneth Clarke. Mr Speaker,, Festival during all

those in thanking the Prime Minister for the statesman-like leadership to

our party and our country over the last six years -- can I first of all

joined those. And on this occasion for the debating eloquence but also

the wit and the humour he has always brought to Prime Minister's

Questions, and can I ask that is no doubt he will have some plans for a

slightly more enjoyable and relaxed Wednesday morning and lunchtime,

nevertheless he will still be an active participant in this house, as

it faces a large number of problems over the next few years. As noted

before no one Brexit means at the moment, they need his advice and

statesmanship -- as no two people know what Brexit means. Can I thank

him for his kind remarks, I remember one of the toughest concessions

ahead in politics was one I was Leader of the Opposition and I were

strong to get into the front bench and he would on a bird-watching

holiday in Patagonia and was almost impossible to persuade him to come

back. His first act as Chancellor of the Exchequer was to fire me as a

special adviser. And I'm very proud of the fact that one of my first

acts was to appoint him to my cabinet in the Coalition Government,

I know that the then the beauty promised will join me in saying he

provided great wisdom, thoughtfulness and ballast at a time

of national faculty in the advice that he gave us. He is not always

the easiest person to get hold of, Tory modernisation has never got as

far as getting him to carry a mobile phone, he briefly had one they said,

the problem was people keep running me on it! Feast of a morning meeting

to accommodate his Monaco cigar. -- we had to move his morning meeting

to accommodate his Monaco cigar. I will miss the rule of the crowd, I

will miss the barbs from the opposition, but I will be willing on

and I don't just mean willing on the new Prime Minister or indeed willing

on the front bench, defending the manifesto I helped to put together

but I mean willing all of you on. People come here with huge passion

for the issues they care about, they come here with love forbidden city

and says they represent and also willing on this place because yes,

we can be pretty tough and challenge our leaders, perhaps more than other

countries but that is something we can be proud of and we should keep

at it and I hope you will all keep at it and I will rule you on as you

do. The last thing over says you can achieve a lot of things in politics

and that in the end, the national interest, public service, is what

it's all about, nothing is impossible if you put your mind to

it. After all, I was the future once.

He leaves with a little speech, he is getting a standing ovation from

the conservative side, doesn't like a standing ovation from the Labour

side they are applauding. The speaker of the house applauding as

well. So Mr Cameron's final Prime Minister's Questions comes to an

end. The Prime Minister began by saying that his diary was remarkably

light this afternoon, Samantha, his wife and three children were at

Prime Minister's Questions, apparently one of the children was

waving and cheering every time Tory MPs cheered, she was waving her

cuddly goal at the Prime Minister as well, sadly we don't have these

pictures. Jeremy Corbyn thanked him for his service. The applause, still

going on for the Prime Minister. He went on to familiar themes he has

brought to PMQs since September of last year, homelessness, the state

of the economy, Mr Cameron battered them off but was at pains to point

out that when it comes to women Prime Minister is, it is netting-

zero to the Conservatives, -- not 2-0. He said he thought Jeremy

Corbyn reminded him of the black Knight in the Holy Grain, the scene

where he loses a night and leg but everything is a flesh wound and he

keeps on. Mr Corbyn thanked David Cameron's month for her dress sense

advice. So there we have it. David Cameron will now see people in the

house, go back to Downing Street and at around 5pm will go to the Palace,

formerly to resign as Prime Minister, followed by Theresa May

becoming this country's next Prime Minister. Your thoughts? I think it

was more like a promise to's stand up today, I think most of the MPs

wanted there to be a light mood today, ceremonial occasion rather

than a day when any serious policy discussion was done. There was one

policy announcement in there, he announced more than ?100 million for

victims of the contaminated blood scandal, something that has been a

terrible incident, MPs have been hearing stories from the

constituents, so there was some meat in tonnes of what he was saying, but

overall David Cameron, remarkably light-hearted on what must be quite

painful day, with huge numbers of preprepared jokes about Jeremy

Corbyn which he relished delivering. Script have been working hard. But

Jeremy Corbyn cleverly used some comments that carries a has made

during a pitch for the leadership about things the covenant has not

put right -- that Theresa May has made. The Prime Minister was quite

clear that existing EU nationals in this country should remain with all

the rights they have at the moment, that is not Theresa May's position,

is it? I think that is the goal we all share. I think our new Prime

Minister is cautious because she wants to make sure we secure the

interests of words living in Europe, but we all want to get to a position

where all EU citizens who are currently here are able to stay,

apart from those who have committed criminal offences. Should they be a

bargaining card or should be just give these EU nationals rights

regardless of how Europe might treat our nationals? I think we all want

to have the position of EU nationals secured in this country, to enable

them to stay on the basis on which they can, but we do have two

exercise a degree of common sense and ensure that we also do all we

can to secure the rights of UK citizens in the rest of Europe.

You're going to miss him. I was in at the start of the Cameron project,

I remember when I was campaigning for his leadership and there were

people who said, can he really cope with Prime Minister's Questions, and

I think he has the mistreated that he is a fabulous performer. And of

an era, in the sense that he was criticised for running a very

public-school government, a Notting Hill set government, we now have

another grammar school Prime Minister who is surrounded by

public-school people, we know Steve Webb, from a council house

background, a number of them like that, even Michael Gove, managed to

take at three Bullingdon boys in the space of 48 hours, it'll be

different for Labour now. Laura said earlier that David Cameron was very

much a creature of Westminster, and I agree on that, he was a creature

of Westminster, and able performer, as we saw in Parliament today, but I

think the parliament needs somebody who was not a creature of

Westminster and somebody was a bit more than a performer. The challenge

for the Conservative Party is to become a representative of the

society it seeks to represent. Reminiscent of Tony Blair at the

end, at the end he also got a standing ovation on both sides of

the house, he had won three elections, something labour forgets

every now and then, but Tony Blair never really liked the Collins

playback of commons. And you sense that with his final moments, people

often say that if you look back at the things in his career, it is

often his performances in the Commons that Prince of his best

moments, his response to the Bloody Sunday enquiry, an emotional

statement he gave in the House of Commons after process that started

long before he was in charge and the product of a different political

generation. But the Commons is somewhere he has excelled, and his

last line, clearly he had thought about it carefully, quoting back

himself from his first ever Prime Minister's Questions, where he said

the Tony Blair, you were the future once, today his last run, I was the

future once. That is probably right that he was the future once but he

is only 50. Youngest Prime Minister to leave number ten in a long time.

In America, he could come back, in France, he could come back. I think

his legacy will be so shaped by his biggest gamble on the referendum

going wrong that it would be very difficult for him to, and I'm not

sure he would want to. Part of the reason he is in the situation is

because in the last general election campaign, a city wasn't going to

stick it out and serve a third term, and that has shaped everything that

that that's happened in his premiership. He didn't quite recover

from that. Some helicopter shots, they are lining up outside

Parliament. That is the inner courtyard of the Palace of

Westminster, one of them. They are waiting for him to come out, some of

the staff in the House of Commons. These are the pictures from Carriage

Gate, he will be picked up, and they will make the short journey up to

Downing Street before later on we expect him to come out and give some

words before going to see the Queen today the formal part of today's

seedings. -- proceedings. Theresa May is inheriting a government with

a majority of 12. David Cameron is going to need to turn up and go

through the lobbies for the government to get business done. The

Theresa May will have the same issue, with the awkward squad, group

of about 30 MPs, many of them Eurosceptics, who will be prepared

to cause trouble if they don't like what she is doing said David

Cameron, somebody in the middle of the Tory party, is going to have to

be around, whether he chooses to speak from the backbenches or get

involved in issues, we'll have to wait and see.

You certainly sense that he feels now adjust from the look of him,

pretty relieved, in a sense, that it's all over. I wonder if he will

still be singing when he comes out. You might have thought he would have

learned the lesson that, whenever there is a microphone near... Maybe

he meant for us to hear him singing the song. Either that or we are

fortunate that politicians always forget in the end. Theresa Villiers,

all of the candidates for the leadership of your party positioned

themselves to the centre, the centre-left talk of infrastructure

funds, doing more for the north, workers, publishing ratios of top

pay to average pay. If the Parliamentary Tory party signed on

to all that kind of approach? Absolutely, I think there will be a

lot of support for it. There is recognition that there are excesses

in corporate pay that needs some constraints through more active

shareholders, more transparency, giving more power to shareholders,

so I think that is welcome. Wright would it command a majority of

backbenchers and the party in the country? It is a one nation class

agenda, if it is delivered. Also, I think we will see a lot about making

the United Kingdom a very competitive place to do business,

with the sort of ideas George Osborne has floated about reducing

business taxes, and pushing investment into infrastructure will

be a great way to create jobs. Let's assume, that's a big assumption,

that the May government, which we will soon be talking about, does a

lot of this. Doesn't that push Labour more to the left? They are

occupying not just the centre-right, not just the centre, but the

centre-left as well. How do you tackle that? I don't think Labour's

political positioning should depend upon the Conservative government.

Labour needs to be true to itself, despite what we believe in and put a

positive case to the country. I believe at the next general

election, whenever that is, however left the Conservatives choose to

paint themselves, there will be a real choice before the electorate, a

different approach to the economy and everything else. It is a big

assumption that they do what they say when they are campaigning for

the leadership. We have heard this week that a lot of the ideas Theresa

May announced work Vince Cable's ideas during the coalition. Theresa

May seems to have resolved on continuing David Cameron's mission

of trying to tether the Conservatives to the centre ground.

Whether they like it or not, Labour will have to respond to that

context. Many people will want to stick to their principles, but the

government sets the context by the things they put forward, that

Westminster and politicians around the country have to respond to. And

many people will think that Mr Cameron's legacy will be that he did

move and put into concrete is party's position on the centre

ground. If that goes down as his achievement, he will be pleased

about that. Let's go back to JoCo in the House of Commons Central lobby.

Thank you. The MPs are streaming out of the chamber behind me and

everybody who was watching in the gallery. I have managed to grab two

Conservative MPs, Ed Vaizey and Harriett Baldwin, both smiling.

There were some jokes at the final PMQs, no doubt, and you would expect

that, but David Cameron will be defined, his legacy, by Brexit.

Brexit is the reason he is leaving, so to a large extent it will define

his legacy, but what was good about PMQs today was the talk about the

other things he has done, the stunning turnaround in his economy,

his life chances strategy, social mobility, more jobs and

opportunities in this country, many more than when he started as Prime

Minister. Theresa May will be the next Prime Minister. You backed

Michael Gove. Are you regretting that? That's very helpful to remind

me of that. Harriet backed Theresa May. I'm pleased to read in the

newspapers today that Theresa May will promote a lot of women. It

would be fantastic to see a cabinet that is gender balanced. And you

hope to be in that cabinet? Not at all. I am pleased that Theresa is

taking over, because she did so much to bring more women into the party,

but we should also credit David Cameron with that. He did a lot,

with Women To Win, and there are now four times as many women MPs in the

Conservative Party as when he took over as leader. I think we are

showing pictures now of David Cameron leaving the Houses of

Parliament. He will be making a short journey back to number ten

Downing St before he goes to the Queen to tender his resignation.

People can watch that as it is happening. Let's talk about the next

government and what it will look like. You talked about promoting

women, and there isn't doubt that Theresa May did a lot to mental and

help women in Parliament. What should be our main priority in this

government? Should it just be about EU negotiations is to mock she has

articulated clearly that she wants the economy to work for everybody.

But everybody says that. One thing she highlighted was the problems

with corporate pay, she was trying to make a point that having someone

who was a representative of employees on the board, like they do

in Germany. She will have to focus very much on the economy, because we

have to negotiate Brexit in a way that works for the opportunities it

presents for the economy as well as the challenges, so that will be an

important part of what she focuses on. Was it's a tactical error to say

that EU foreign nationals would be up for negotiation? She has made

very clear that what she wants to happen is for all of the over a

million people living in other EU countries, that also get the same

negotiation as people who are living here and have made their lives here,

so it's important to remember that aspect in terms of the discussions

with other countries. What about unifying the party? In the chamber,

I spied Boris Johnson in the far corner. He couldn't have got further

away from David Cameron, or maybe he was just late. That is going to be

hard, isn't it? He was standing close to me, so maybe I will be a

bridge. We are unified by Theresa May. She has outstanding qualities

and a great record in government. I don't think that the Parliamentary

party will brook anybody doing noises off at such a crucial time.

What a true but should people like Boris Johnson and Michael Gove be in

the party? Would that be a bridge into both sides? -- in the cabinet.

Anybody should agree to support her, regardless of who you are. The

changing of the guard is happening as we speak. With that, it is back

to you, Andrew. Thank you, JoCo. We are just taking

pictures from our helicopter as the Prime Minister, a small cavalcade

leaves the House of Commons and head back to Downing Street, as he goes

through, I think that it is the Foreign Office building, to go

through into Downing Street for his final afternoon as Prime Minister of

the United Kingdom. You can see the cars pulling up on the side street,

not the main part of Downing Street, just there, as he begins his new

life as a former pro Minister of this country. There are not many

around, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown. I think that's about

it. As a former Prime Minister, for the rest of his life, wherever he

goes, whatever he does, he will have to have security with him. That

never goes away. It's one of the penalties you pay for being leader

of this country, and, of course, other countries as well. There he is

going back into Downing Street, repairing later this afternoon to go

and see the Queen at Buckingham Palace. He will be followed by

Theresa May, who will go to see the Queen, to officially become the

Prime Minister of this country. So one leadership power struggle, if I

can put it that way, is gone. The Conservatives have chosen their

leader. The country therefore has a new pro Minister. She can command a

majority in parliament. That's what matters in this country. We await to

see what happens with the other power struggle, which is for the

leader of the Labour Party. That is already underway. Let's go now to

mark global. He has been following this. -- Mark Lobel. There are some

developments. What can you tell us about the latest news from the

Labour leadership contest? From the front, chaotic battle meeting of the

NEC yesterday, where Jeremy Corbyn one that decisive vote 14-18 to get

automatically on the ballot, not needing 51 nominations from MPs and

MEPs, I have been told by two senior sources that they are not going to

challenge that because it was such a decisive victory. But the Biba

atmosphere where this contest is being played out that there was a

secret ballot because people were afraid of retaliation. -- free

bridal atmosphere. Constituency meetings and branch meetings are

going to be suspended. Anybody wanting to throw their hat in the

ring us to do so by this time next week. We will have a result in about

two months, on September the 24th, a day before Labour's annual

conference. We have two challenges to Mr Corbyn at the moment, Owen

Smith and Angela Eagle. Is there any talk that they may come under

pressure to narrow themselves down to one, to have one challenger to Mr

Corbyn? I have been told by a senior Labour figure that there is a 100%

chance that they will be whittled down to one within a week, so we

will see if that happens. What ever it is, they had good news from

yesterday's meeting, because of what they decided but who is going to

vote. They said they were going to freeze membership, so anybody who

has joined up until January 12 this year, but the 130,000 people, the

surge of members, who many thought what a majority pro-Corbyn, they

will not get a vote, and that is because Jeremy Corbyn was not in the

room when an amendment against that vote was held. He lost the block of

votes. Secondly, the registered supporters are going to be taken

away. From before, 51% of members and affiliated supporters for Jeremy

Corbyn backed him, so it will be a tight contest on these terms. Thank

you. We have just learned that Theresa May dined with the Chief

Rabbi on the eve of becoming Prime Minister. That will probably leave

the Archbishop of Canterbury a bit miffed, and she is a vicar's

daughter, too. What's going on? Who is allowed to vote in the Labour

leadership? Labour Party members enjoyed before the January cut-off

date that has been mentioned can vote. Numbers of affiliated trade

unions that pay the political levy can vote. People who register as

supporters for ?25 in a 48-hour window between Thursday and Saturday

can vote. I would like to see more people able to vote. I agreed with

Angela Eagle, Neil Kinnock and others when they said that people

should be able to join and vote now. I think we should have an open and

inclusive process. People watching wanted to join the Labour Party

fresh, they have not been members before, but they do that now, paying

the full fee and get a vote? As it stands, they would have to become

registered supporters in this 48 -- 48-hour window. The cost of that is

disturbing, ?25, and we should not be pricing Labour supporters out of

their vote. We will have to go and study the Labour voting rules. Thank

you for being with us on this historic day. The one o'clock news

is starting now. Jo and I will be here tomorrow at noon with all of

the big political stories of the day. There will be continuing

coverage of political events here as we move from Prime Minister Cameron

to Prime Minister May, and both of them visit the Queen later this

afternoon. Keep tuned to BBC News and BBC One for all of these events.

Bye-bye.