Hewing to a centuries-old tradition, Mr. Cameron arrived at the palace around 5 p.m., tendered his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II, and recommended she appoint Ms. May-until now, Britain’s home secretary-to succeed him.
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Cameron told MPs he would “miss the roar of the crowd”, BBC reported.
Theresa May, who was the Home Secretary, will set about naming her own frontbench team after taking office.
“Its not been an easy journey and of course weve not got every decision right”.
European Union leaders are pressing for a swift divorce following the Brexit vote, which sent shockwaves around the world.
Cameron concluded: “It has been the greatest honour of my life to serve our country as Prime Minister over these last six years and to serve as leader of my party over 11 years”.
He also exchanged good wishes with Corbyn but still couldn’t resist a jibe over the Labour leadership. In his final remarks, he reprised a comment he made to Tony Blair during his first PMQs as opposition leader in 2005, saying: “I was the future once”.
David Cameron has signed off his final Prime Minister’s Questions telling MPs: “Nothing is impossible”.
It was a packed 38-minute session during which the outgoing Prime Minister compared Jeremy Corbyn to Monty Python’s Black Knight and produced photographic proof that he loved Larry the Downing Street cat, adding: “Sadly, I can’t take it with me”.
“I want to thank everyone who has given so much support to me personally over these years”, he said.
“As I once said, I was the future once”, Cameron noted, as his wife and children watched from the public gallery. Nancy, Arthur and Florence.
Buckingham Palace has released an image of May offering a deep curtsey before the monarch, denoting that she has accepted the queen’s invitation to form a government.
May emphasised her commitment to delivering Brexit but “explained that we would need some time to prepare for these negotiations and spoke of her hope that these could be conducted in a constructive and positive spirit”, the spokeswoman said of the calls.
May, 59, is only the second woman to become prime minister in the United Kingdom.
But the prime minister, who appointed Clarke his justice secretary in 2010, remembered one of his first run-ins with the former chancellor.
Potential candidates for Brexit minister include Liam Fox, David Davis or even Andrea Leadsom, who could be in line for a Cabinet post in acknowledgment of her elevated profile following the Tory leadership contest.
May’s appointment as leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister is the culmination of weeks of political turmoil, party infighting and resignations following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.
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Speaking of his pride at presiding over record employment, improved school standards, the introduction of gay marriage and lifting low-paid people out of income tax, Mr Cameron told MPs: “You can achieve a lot of things in politics …”
