11/07/2016 Newsnight

In two days' time, Great Britain will have a new Prime Minister.

Here is how it all began. The interests of our country are best

served by the immediate appointment of a strong and well supported Prime

Minister. BBC, anyone? OK. Robert Peston? It is clear Theresa May as

the overwhelming support of the Conservative Parliamentary party. I

am honoured and humbled to have been chosen by the Conservative body to

be its leader. With a full studio we ask

if the country can unite around Theresa May and what her premiership

will look like. Even by the crazy standards

of the new political age, A campaign launched mid-morning saw

the candidate heralded the next Theresa May had assumed

she was making her first speech In the end, she was the only

one left in the Tory leadership contest after

Andrea Leadsom quit the field. So how did we get to a place

where the Brexiteers won the battle so resoundingly but then

lost the race, not once, And what does it mean when a Remain

prime minister makes way for his long-standing Remain home

secretary after the biggest electoral upheaval the country

has seen for decades? There are plenty of questions to ask

tonight, and we devote the lion's share of this programme to asking

what the next few days, Before he head into the future

though, here's Nick Watt The Conservative Party thought it

might catch its breath today after a frantic period since the EU

referendum. Theresa May kicked off what was expected to be a two-month

campaign to win over Tory grassroots members while David Cameron made a

predictable visit to the opening day of the Farnborough airshow. In a two

definitive illustration of how a tweet now marks a long time in

politics, Theresa May found that by the time she had become Prime

Minister elect. Showing how quickly and brutally power can transfer in

Britain, David Cameron was put on notice to pack his bags by

Wednesday. To make way for the Home Secretary. She has the potential to

be a great by Minister for our country. I have seen her work on the

home of the select committee and on working through the investigatory

Powers Bill and she has the result, she had the skills and the

experience to make a great success of our country leaving Europe. This

was never about who we want to go down the pub with, it was about

having the right person with the right competent and experience and

professionalism and seriousness to be able to be by Minister at a

difficult time when we have real challenges ahead but also

opportunities if we can have the right person as PM and today we have

managed that. The Caravan sprang back into life again after

everybody's plans were thrown in the air when Andrea Leadsom announced

she was abandoning her bid for the premiership, the only Brexit support

the left in the race claiming her modest support among Tory MPs would

make it difficult for her to govern as Prime Minister. Allies said she

was the victim of hostile briefing. And therefore withdrawing from the

leadership election and I wish Theresa May the very greatest

success. I assure her of my full support. Thank you very much. I do

think there are people in the party that need to examine their own

consciences about how they behaved and they need to recognise that this

is not the way to treat colleagues. I hope they will reflect on that and

decide that maybe, just maybe, putting your country first rather

than your own personal ambitions is not a bad thing. In the interview

with The Times, Andrea has had a difficult few days, do you think

that played a part in her thinking? Obviously the whole saga around that

interview was relevant because it caused a media storm but what I

would point out, I don't think it had that big an effect on the

members, it did not stop calls coming in to be from people who were

enthusiastic about organising hustings on her behalf soap she

struck a real chord with members and is incredibly important that the new

government recognises the support and what she stood for and that it

is respected. A senior figure in Andrea Leadsom's Kemp told me she

walked straight into a trap laid by the Home Secretary's team -- camp.

In one of the most extra break is of this campaign, this person told me

the Home Secretary had deliberately talked last week and about her pain

of not having children so that journalists could be enticed into

asking Andrea Leadsom about her life as a mother. This person also told

me that the Theresa May campaign were planning a second round in

which the Home Secretary would talk about her battle against diabetes so

that journalists could once again be encouraged to ask Andrea Leadsom

about Theresa May's personal life. One senior Tory told Newsnight this

was a weird conspiracy. Other members of the Leadsom team felt it

was time to move on. The decision has been made and we have to be

common sense about this. One of the things with Andrea, she is straight

down the line and what is most important for the country is

stability. If she can suck that up, I can as well. Theresa May is our

girl now, Brexit means Brexit! -Ites aborted Theresa May because I

thought she could step into the role straightaway and could deliver the

negotiation that the people have voted for. We will have a new Prime

Minister... Today marked the end of the road for the David Cameron but

at least he managed to disprove Enoch Powell's famous saying that

all political careers end in tears. He walked through the door humming

HU. -- humming at Chungju. -- song. On Tuesday, David Cameron

will hold his last Cabinet meeting At 12pm on Wednesday,

David Cameron will hold his last Prime Minister's Questions

in the Commons, before he leaves to seek

an audience with the Queen. By Wednesday evening, Theresa May

will become Britain's second She's insisted she won't hold

an early election. Where to start? We saw the rapid and

brutal way in which power is transferred in this country but

interestingly, Theresa May has a 48-hour window for her first task,

the apartment of her Cabinet. The first employment with sheep -- she

will make is to refer to her promise where she would set up a Department

for Brexit with a Brexit secretary of state, and Chris Grayling, her

campaign manager, seems the obvious choice as he was a leading Brexit

campaigner, which would give Brexit supporters hope that her pledge

Brexit, means Brexit, but you will see a mixture of Brexit and

remainders. That is the beginning but then it changes. On Wednesday,

Barack Obama will visit her, the outgoing president congratulating an

incoming Prime Minister, nice present there is, but the phone call

with Angela Merkel might be tougher. Angela Merkel has said that she can

understand why David Cameron couldn't trigger the formal UK exit

from the EU but she said that the new prime ministers should do it.

Theresa May has said that it will not be in this calendar year, so

there may be some friction. She has two things in her favour, the Lisbon

Treaty says that the exiting country should notify the European Council,

and the next is not until October, three months away, and another

thing, Theresa May is seen in Brussels as a really tough and

credible negotiator. Thank you for joining us.

Theresa May pledged today that Brexit meant Brexit,

the bit of her speech that elicited the loudest cheers.

She's often called a soft Remainer, someone who could perhaps

So, what will her vision of Brexit look like?

Matthew Hancock has been a firm supporter of hers,

and has also worked closely with the Chancellor, George

Thank you for joining us. Many people don't think they know Theresa

May even know she has been at the centre of power for so long. Which

of these labels would apply to her? Is she a moderniser? What she is

aiming to do and made very clear in her speech this morning, which I

thought was terrific, is that she wants to bring unity to the party

and to the country. We've just had this referendum campaign, it was

clearly divisive and bringing people together, within the party and then,

perhaps more importantly, in the country as a whole, is what she

talked about. Is that a moderniser? I'm wondering whether she would

encourage Michael Gove's reforms in education, or prisons? I think she

is a unifying figure, that's what we've seen in the result of the

ballot of MPs, 199 MPs including meat supported her, more than half

of the parliamentary party, -- including me. She also has a very

strong sense of leadership. She clearly sets out what she believes

and then follows it, we've seen that at the Home Office and we saw it

with some of the clear direction. With the greatest respect, we heard

that from her today and we heard a lot about it in her speech, but we

are trying to get a sense from people who know her of what this

will look like. Would you call her somebody like Cameron, does she

believe in gay marriage, does she believe in the big society? Will she

follow that line in his thinking? Well, she supported equal marriage

and she was on the front page of the manifesto, the 2015 manifesto, so

clearly there is a lot to build on, in delivering the rest of the

manifesto but also an agenda and a vision that she set out today.

Making sure that the economy works for everyone, the thread of that

speech has been the thread of her leadership campaign. Interesting,

many people picked up echoes of Ed Miliband, the reference to the

predators, capitalism not working for everyone, the sense of getting

workers on board, being more accountable. Do you think that's

where she is placing herself? She is very clear that the good thing about

the last six years is that we have the economy recovering, getting the

deficit down, but we must make sure it works for everybody and reaches

the parts it hasn't reached. This is an important part of the agenda. Of

course you've got to support businesses to create the jobs that

people need but that doesn't mean you can't reform the way that the

economy works so that the wealth generation is spread more broadly

across the country. I think that is something she supports. You said

about supporting parts that others can't reach, you must be worried

about what this looks like to the rest of the country now, are you, in

terms of the solidity of her mandate? Well clearly the country is

calling out for some solidity and strength of leadership, that is the

strong sense I get, whether you talk to businesses, constituents, people

are looking for leadership in Britain. And will they say that this

is a leader who has been brought in by 199 MPs, that isn't 17 million

people voting for Brexit, is it? She is very clearly going to deliver

Brexit, Brexit means Brexit, as she has said. You understand my point,

essentially this radical, huge and people in British politics saw David

Cameron resigning because he was a Remain Prime Minister and in essence

they brought in the girl next door, his Home Secretary, a Remain Home

Secretary. Is that going to cause a problem and will you have to go to

the country for an election? No, we don't need a general election but we

need to listen to the concerns of some of the people who voted to

leave and make sure that they are addressed, that's all part of

unifying the country. But it needs strongly the ship and it needs that

unity and then it needs a bold vision of where the country goes --

strongly needs leadership. Things like the amount of money that is

paid to international aid, that percentage of GDP, is that something

she would say that we've heard a lot of voices within the party and the

country saying we need to abolish it? That's clear in the manifesto.

What I think we are... What I would expect to see, building on what she

said today and what she's to MPs about, making sure that we

concentrate not just on wealth creation, but making sure everybody

can share a part of it -- talking to MPs about. So the manifesto first

and foremost, not a new Brexit manifesto? We have a parliamentary

democracy, we have a new Prime Minister who has the full support of

the Conservative Party, people who supported her, people who supported

other people in the leadership race, now all of them backing Theresa May

because she is clearly the best person for the job of Prime Minister

right now in a period where Britain needs some unity and strength of

leadership and I'm sure that's what she'll provide. Thank you for

joining us. Europe has breathed something

of a sigh of relief tonight that Britain has at least begun

to get its house in order. Theresa May is well known

as a negotiator in Brussels, seen as a commendably

tough nut after her six In that job, she fought

hard to deport foreign criminals from the UK but failed

to bring immigration In her first speech today,

she pledged to prioritise house building, narrow the gap

between employees and fat cats Her pitch was firmly centre ground,

some would say borrowing more than a few ideas from

the former Labour leaders. Today was supposed to be

the first in a series We are only going to get one now

but it was pretty striking. A proper industrial strategy

wouldn't automatically stop the sale But it should be capable of stepping

in to defend a sector that is as important

as pharmaceuticals to Britain. The FTSE, for example,

is trading at about the same level as it was 18 years ago and it's

nearly 10% below its high peak. Yet in the same period,

executive pay has more than trebled. So if I'm Prime Minister

we are going to change that system and that means having not just

consumers represented on company Some commentators were quite

surprised by that speech, seeing it as un-Tory,

somehow, but what has Theresa May has been Home Secretary

for so long that people have She was one of the original arch

modernisers, she supported Michael Portillo for leader back

in 2001 and in 2002 she gave a speech that has gone down

in Conservative Party folklore. Our base is too narrow and so,

occasionally, are our sympathies. I know that's unfair,

you know that's unfair but it is the people out

there we need to convince. What will Prime Minister May do

then? She doesn't do speeches for the sake

of making speeches. She actually, one of her virtues

is that when she said something If she is talking about corporate

reform in a leadership campaign that has now ended, she will want to do

that in government. As Home Secretary, she imposed

elected commissioners on the police shook up stop and search

and demanded changes from the Police Federation,

which acts as a union The Federation was created by an act

of Parliament and it can be reformed If you do not change

of your own accord, we will impose Some have read her fight

with the police as a sign Theresa took on the police

because she saw it as an unreformed area of public services

where she could build up some sort of anti-union credentials

but when it came to the security services and tackling terrorism,

she has always been I think you can see that in the way

she pushed for the Snoopers' Charter without even questioning

what the agencies wanted. There is a consensus among

people who have worked with her that she is a Tory public

service reformer, not a liberal. There is a lot going on in the big

public services, schools or at health or work and pensions

so we will probably What I think we will probably see

is there will be other areas of policy that she might

want to focus on with a lot We know that Michael Gove has been

doing a lot of interesting work in justice and that would be one

area I hope she would do. The mark against Theresa May for

many people is that she continually missed the 100,000 person a year

net immigration target. But she annoyed swathes

of government as she She was a very tough

negotiator, very tough. And the business department

in which I worked did not win all the arguments we would have

with the Home Office. This is part of why some

ministers say she is chilly. That and lots of journalists

dislike her absence from the usual Westminster old boys clubs

but Theresa May develops allies For example, she has a good rapport

with Bernard Cazeneuve, We can't say that much

about our new Prime Minister but Theresa May's instincts

are radical and her speech today suggests she is still serious

about reaching beyond the Tory base. Joining me now, Crispin Blunt,

who worked with May in his role as Justice Minister,

and Theresa May's good friend the former Tory Treasurer,

Lady Catherine Meyer. Thank you for coming in. I'm going

to start with you, Lady Catherine. You have known her for 12 years and

it was interesting hearing Chris sake we don't know much, we don't

know a woman who has been right at the heart of politics for ten years.

That is the person she is. People have a perception of her on the

outside but people don't know her privately and privately she is very

kind and caring person. I have known her for 12 years, professionally and

also as a friend and also professionally not only as a member

of the Tory party but as I run a charity to deal with missing and

abducted children and she has been quite amazing. She is a person who

really cares, she cares about children, about human issues. You

talk to her and she listens to you and there is a completely different

side to her. Do you think that side will have to come out now? We saw

her publish photos of her childhood and wedding and her parents for the

first time. Does she acknowledged she has to bridge the gap? Maybe it

is because it is what the media demands but I also admire her for

being so stomach. She is the person she is. She is different, she does

not wear her heart on her sleeve, she does not come out and do

television all the time. She does not need all this attention. She is

a hard-working woman who is loyal and direct and of course people need

to know her more but they need also to respect her, respect the calm

hard-working person she is to lead our country. This is the moment the

proverbial alien lands and says the bucket is won and they have

imploded. It cannot make sense, what has gone on -- Brexiteer Bubba. One

after leaders vanish or self-destruct. She

stepped into space by making it clear that she will deliver Brexit.

Given how businesslike she is and how focused she is on delivery, that

gives me confidence at somebody who supported the Leave campaign that

she will deliver it. You can happily waved goodbye? I voted Out, I have

been a Eurosceptic for 20 years but I think she is the right person. I

know Theresa and when she says she is going to do something, I should

not call her Theresa, I should call her the future Prime Minister but

when she said she would do something, she will do it. Do you

have a niggling sense she might have voted Out in her privacy? No because

she is a loyal person. The Prime Minister was In and she followed the

primary step. When we talk about the Cameron government or the Blair

government, we think of good friends who have known each other for years

but she does not have that support system. What you see is what you get

which is white your suggestion that she might have voted Out is

completely misreading her. She is very direct. She would see that is

completely wrong to do that and any suggestion that her supporters would

go off and vote for Michael Gove in order to get him in the final, she

had plenty of votes at her disposal and they could have run an operation

to get Michael Gove past Leadsom but she was crystal kit that was not to

happen. She was quite quiet in terms of how much of herself she put out

into the Remain campaign. She would have been carefully controlled. She

is the minister responsible for immigration which was not an issue

that the Remain campaign wanted to focus on so that is probably an

explanation about the management of the campaign. I just think that she

is a loyal person, very Eurosceptic she knows the EU, she will be a

fantastic negotiator for us. She is a Eurosceptic. So she only voted

remaining group out of loyalty? Because she is a pragmatist and she

looked at the facts and decided, also being a loyal person, that it

was better to stay in but I think she is very sceptical of the

European Union and this is what I would say to all Brexit people who

doubt her, there is no way when she says, Brexit is Brexit, she means

it. And I also wanted a sense that she could see the opportunities for

the UK outside the EU. And very quickly she easily got into that

territory. That is the outward, Brexit facing side but what about

domestically? Who is her set? Who is her sofa? I think that is wonderful,

where she is so different to the other prime ministers. Most of the

people who come into number ten, it is normal, they come in with their

set of friends. That is normal, you want to be surrounded by people you

can trust. But I believe that Theresa is very different to that.

She will come in and look pragmatically at who are the right

people, the people who can do the job, and she does not have a group

of friends to bring in with her. Would you agree? Completely. That is

what makes her different, she will take a businesslike assessment

people's abilities. It is white we thought she would find it difficult

in the leadership race because there were not an army of mates for her,

she had not created that personal group. And we should not be worried

about a woman who does not have an army of mates. They give very much.

-- thank you very much. So, the contest that would have been

determined by the vote of just 0.25% of the population was in the end

determined by a microscopic 0.00055% This, to answer the unrest

of 17 million voters complaining So how credible is it

to install, crown, a Remainer? And what do those in

the Brexit heartlands feel? In the end it was a race that was

never really run. The contenders for the Conservative leadership were

eliminated or resigned leaving Theresa May the winner. But how well

a Prime Minister in favour of Remain go down in Brexit heartlands like

Harlow in Essex? Did she went a lot of races? Dave owns the Greyhound

racing Stadium here and was a firm Leave supporter. He wanted Michael

Gove to be leader and believes he should have been let back into the

race. I would like to see Michael Gove reinstated and let the

Conservative Party vote. Why do you think it is important? There is a

lot of people out there who have joined the Conservative Party, I'm

not saying which the way they would have gone, but I think they have

then a trooper minister. -- true Prime Minister. Up the road at the

Cannon Brook Cull .com the chair of the local Conservative Association

says they have seen a big increase in members joining since the

referendum. -- Kallenberg golf club. I don't think she did a lot for the

Remain camp. Is that one of the reasons why you find her more

acceptable? I think it is more the experience she has. She is

compassionate and I think she will bring the party back together again.

But did the Tory Leave voters on the course agree? I don't think it

should be a walkover, you have not done anything and nobody has voted

for you and you have just stepped in. Do you think she might not

implement the full Brexit? I don't think she will, I think she must

have her own views and you will always try to put your own views in

front of other things. I think the Prime Minister might set the scene

but there are too many Cabinet ministers around, if she does stray

off the beaten track, they will correct. And you don't worry that

she might try to soften the impact of Brexit and sneakily get us back

in? There is no chance in hell that we will get a second referendum on

the European think it is done and dusted, finished. On Wednesday,

Theresa May tees off as PM. Most Brexiteers here seem willing to give

her a chance but only if she implement the policies they voted

for. The party expected the launch

of Angela Eagle's leadership bid But by lunchtime even she herself

was looking round the deserted room But the party knows it may

have to ready itself Talk us through the bit

that no one really saw. Pitied Paul Angela Eagle, she

launched her campaign and it was overshadowed by Andrea Leadsom's

decision to drop out of the Conservative leadership contest but

if they had been there, they would have seen that Angela Eagle had

quite a cross-section of support, Harriet Harman and those from the

left. Essentially Angela Eagle's message is that she is from the left

and she represents a change not of ideology but personnel, from

incompetence, to competence. This is what she said. Well I think we know

that to be the leader of the Labour Party you have to lead in Parliament

too. We've seen Jeremy not do that job. He's been hiding behind a door,

not talking to his members of Parliament. That's not leadership.

We need a leader who can take the confidence of the parliamentary

party with him, and he hasn't been able to do that. And what happens

now? The ballot is where things get complicated. There is a membership

of the executive committee which will decide whether Jeremy Corbyn

must do what Angela Eagle has done, get at least 51 signatures

supporting his candidacy. Jeremy Corbyn has some legal advice which

says he is automatically on the ballot because party walls talk

about how challengers need nominations but Iain McNicol, the

Labour Party general secretary says he has legal advice saying that all

candidates must be treated equally, meaning Corbyn must get 51

signatures to be there. There will be eight Bush at the NEC meeting to

have a ballot to do it on secret -- there will be a push. There will be

members of the NEC who may be wary of putting their heads above the

parapet but if it is in private, they may go against Corbyn. Whatever

decision they make, it's going to be in the courts. We'll be watching

tomorrow. It is only Monday -

remind yourself of that - but by the middle of the week

the country will have Cameron's Conservatism will belong

to history and May's Britain will spell out how to begin divorce

from the EU and establish Britain's credentials with the

rest of the world. With us now, Francis Maude, Tessa

Jowell and perhaps Alex Salmond. We will see if he joins us. Nice to

have you here. The thing I have been aware of the day, without realising

it, is that the whispering has gone, the Conservative whispering has

pretty much gone now. Do you think this was blood-letting? Do you think

they have got their loyalty back after this? We are generally quite

good at that. It wasn't so good after Thatcher left because she cast

a very long shadow and the circumstances of her being, as it

were, the Venice traded, were quite brutal, it was quite quick and it

took time for the wounds to heal -- as it were, thrown out of the

window. This is a different event, events coming around in a different

way. I wonder if it looks to you, you can see the mess that Labour is

in, there is something so brutal about the way the Tories do this

stuff, but they get back into power, that's how it happens. Well, members

of the Labour Party, members of Parliament are absolutely hating

this. I think it's impossible to describe the depths of despair that

a lot of members of Parliament feel. This being the Corbyn row? Jeremy

Corbett insisting on staying on, you know, not engaging with the peace

talks or the withdrawal talks, transition talks with Tom Watson,

insisting on staying when 80% of the parliamentary party have lost

confidence in him. It's a terrible place to be. I mean, whatever else

it is, it is the height of selfishness. It is absolutely the

case that we now have a party of about 600,000 people, but the only

purpose of a political party is to build a road to power. Because the

Labour Party in government can transform this country for the

better, transform people's lives in ways that they can't do on their

own. So the Tories have a free rein in power, for the foreseeable

future? And I hope that it will be that. I think you are wrapping up

far too many long-term generalisations in that. The Labour

Party has to get itself back to the left of centre progressive grounds

that represents the consensus of politics in this country, reach out

to those communities who feel they have been underrepresented and

forgotten. I think it's very clear what could be done quickly by a

government that recognised that it really mattered. Is Theresa May

correct to rule out a general election when there will be this

Gordon Brown like shadow hanging over her, giving her a smaller

mandate? It is different circumstances because everyone knew

that Tony Blair was not going to do the entire term, the timing wasn't

planned but everyone knew that there would be a succession from Tony, to

Gordon Brown. This is quite different. There is an urgent set of

issues to deal with. Thank God we don't have to go through nine weeks

of a leadership election, we can get a new Prime Minister quickly, that's

great, but to say that we can't do anything until an election, that

would be really bad. To pick up your point about whether the

Conservatives have free rein, absolutely not. We went through, 15

years ago, a period when Tony Blair was winning elections. Who is

holding you to account now? We will be held to account in many different

ways. It probably felt, when we were a very diminished while ari force

after the 97 and 2001 elections after Labour wasn't held to account

-- diminished parliamentary force. The interesting thing is that

Theresa May was one of the first to see that actually the Conservative

Party needed to change in order to be able to appeal, much more widely.

Some of that may be beyond your control. She saw it before David

Cameron, who then embodied it and lead the Conservative Party to be

much more broad, to appeal much more widely, geographically and socially

and ethnically, to have much more appeal to women than we had done.

Theresa was there before David. Do you think there is a chance, this is

Alex Salmond's point, that she could be the last Prime Minister of the

United Kingdom? Well, let me unpick the question. I think I would

disagree with Francis. I think a Prime Minister needs to have their

own mandate and therefore the question about a general election is

a question about timing. Not that I'm advising her, but I think there

is so much uncertainty about the content, the terms of the Brexit

negotiations, I think she should have a general election, once it is

clearer. It would be good for those in the centre of Labour, wouldn't

it? I think it absolutely worth, and it would be a good as -- it would be

good as a way of answering questions many people in the country have, now

they realise the scale of the uncertainty. That merges into having

a rerun, not liking the result of the referendum, therefore we are we

running it. It would be incredibly dangerous for democracy if we see

what we have seen elsewhere in the EU, you get a result in a referendum

that you don't like, so you go back again and again. You can't have

that. You have to provide more certainty than the inner and out

vote provides. We already seeing consequences of the votes that were

anticipated in the campaign. You know, I was undeclared, I took no

part in this,... How did you do that? Very easily, and I'm happy

that I did because I thought that both sides were making very

overblown campaigns. The Leave campaign were claiming things that

were inconsistent and the Remain were making claims of doom and

gloom... The last 48-hour is of David Cameron, I wonder how you will

both see his premiership? One that ended in tears or one that didn't?

Sadly, this is going to colour it a lot and that's a sad way for it to

end because he's been a very good leader of the party and the country.

He has always conveyed a sense that he's of speaking to the country, of

rising to the big occasions. There has never been a time, just as I

would say, as someone who always thought of Tony Blair as someone who

was able to represent the country, someone where you saw him... The

centre ground, in some way. Hearing Theresa May's speech, that was tanks

parked firmly on Ed Miliband... Yes, and her strapline could have been

from a speech by Ed Miliband or manifesto. That makes the point, the

political centre of gravity is just that. It is the centre ground. David

Cameron wanted to occupy that space in the way that Tony Blair did.

That's why the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, understanding that he is

trying to take the Labour Party in a direction that the people of this

country will reject, is so wrong and that is why he should stand down. I

think Angela has shown great courage in being prepared to take the fight.

You probably know in your heart of hearts that she is no more likely to

become Prime Minister than Corbyn is. Listen, we're in a time of great

uncertainty. Was that a yes or no? Let's see. We should get out of the

prediction business, actually! I was going to ask you, looking at 2016.

There are not these kinds of certainties and the nature of

politics is so dynamic and changing. What people want from politicians is

changing. I think if anything must change, it is the elite showing more

humility, and becoming more activist. The most commonly heard

words over the last couple of weeks, "Haven't you heard, it's all

changed". Or a four letter expletives! Thank you for joining

us. Well, that's all we have time

for tonight, but what David Cameron was heard whistling

a tune under his breath that no one He was worried the door wouldn't be

opened for him if staff didn't On that note, we leave you with some

of the images of the Cameron premiership you might remember,

and some he'll wish you'd forgotten. MUSIC: "I Know It's

Over" - The Smiths. Taking a risk, having a punt,

having a go, that pumps me up! So we will have a new Prime Minister

in that building behind me A week is a long time in politics

and the weather is pretty interesting as well. Sunshine and

showers but no two days the same.