The never shy brown and white tabby rescue cat was seen on patrol as the global press gathered in front of No. 10 to await Cameron’s departure and the arrival of May.
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He warned that homelessness has risen for the past six years and looks as though it will continue to rise.
“And when I say willing you on, I don’t just mean willing on the new prime minister at this despatch box or indeed just willing on the frontbench defending the manifesto that I helped to put together”.
“I think around the cabinet table yesterday the feeling was that we have our Angela Merkel”, said Jeremy Hunt, health secretary in Cameron’s team which met for the last time on Tuesday.
“Someone said, ‘Hey, Cameron”.
Mrs May, the current Home Secretary, will assume the office of Prime Minister today after the only remaining contender in the Conservative leadership race, Andrea Leadsom, withdrew.
In a last prime minister’s questions filled with jokes, laughter, tributes and farewells, Cameron told lawmakers from all parties that “you can achieve a lot of things in politics”.
We (Conservatives) got on with it: we’ve had resignation, nomination, competition and coronation.
A month ago, May had no idea she was about to become prime minister. And he offered the closest thing he has ever given to a mission statement: “I believe that politics is about public service in the national interest”.
France has called for the rapid execution of the procedures for Britain to leave the European Union, with government spokesman Stephane Le Foll telling reporters on Wednesday that Paris’s position remained unchanged with the arrival of May as the UK’s prime minister.
“The rumour is that I don’t love Larry. I do and I have photographic evidence to prove it”, holding up a picture.
“As I leave for the last time, my only wish is for the continued success for this great country that I love so very much”, he concluded, before the traditional waves and posing for family photographs outside 10 Downing Street. “They haven’t even decided what the rules are”.
The final question was given to Conservative heavyweight Kenneth Clarke, the 1990s finance minister.
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Mr Cameron announced he would resign on June 24, in the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. Despite the often blood-sport nature of PMQs, one of the beauties of the system is that the prime minister always gets the last word.
