Cameron, who has been prime minister since 2010, didn’t take any questions after his short statement.
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He said he would miss the “roar of the crowd” in parliament, but assured his colleagues that he would be willing them on from his new position as a regular lawmaker representing his English constituency of Witney, near Oxford.
And he celebrated the fact that it would be “two nil” on female prime ministers, with the Conservatives about to welcome their second female leader before Labour had had any. We (Conservatives) got on with it: we’ve had resignation, nomination, competition and coronation.
“And that, in the end – the public service, the national interest – that is what it’s all about”.
“I was the future once”, Cameron said.
The Commons was packed to overflowing as MPs crammed into gangways and bunchedon stairs to cheer the former Tory leader who achieved, as Peter Lilley said, an unmatched “mastery” of the weekly sessions – yet who lost everything after the Brexit vote.
Cameron, who has been in Downing Street for six years, resigned last month after suffering the hardest political blow of his life when voters rejected his appeals to stay in the European Union.
Mr Cameron then held up a photograph of himself with Larry.
He said: “I do (love Larry) and I have photographic evidence to prove it”.
He said: “I’m told that there are lots of leadership roles out there at the moment”.
Mr Cameron saved some of his best lines for the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, digging out a letter from September 2015 warning him to watch out for Tom Watson and assuring him the party would create its own “disunity”. “The Queen always has to have a Prime Minister, and the new Prime Minister is going to be a woman for the first time in 26 years'”.
David Cameron welcomed the cat’s arrival, and said he would make a “great addition” to the Number 10 team.
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“I remember when I did his (Mr Corbyn’s) job and I met Mayor Bloomberg in NY and we walked down the street and everyone knew Mike Bloomberg and everyone came up and said “Mayor, you’re doing a great job”.
