I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold.

The second female Prime Minister, but certainly not the last.

I do so with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude,

to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.

That was Theresa May, resigning as Prime Minister earlier this morning. I'm Fraser Nelson,

and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Katie Bowles to discuss what happens next and what we can

read into that resignation statement

by the Prime Minister. Now, James, her call for compromise, that obviously was a reference to

what do you think? She was calling for compromise essentially in and with Parliament to get a Brexit

deal through.

She is essentially saying, don't think any new prime minister can come in and say, right,

this is what I want to do on Brexit, do it Parliament, and succeed.

I thought it was very telling that there was no mention at all of,

I wish my success at well and then negotiations with the EU.

She was essentially saying that this whole solution to this problem has to come from Westminster.

That is essentially a massive pop at Boris Johnson, Dominic Rabe, Esther McVey, Andrew Ledson,

all these people who talk about getting changes from Brussels to make the deal more acceptable rather than making changes here in Westminster

to try and get a deal over the line.

Because I imagine James that the signature theme of her withdrawal agreement was that I have got as much as is humanly possible from Brussels.

And by the way, Parliament, if you're voting against my deal, you're being naive,

don't think there's an improvement. So she's basically going out on that note saying don't think any of you are going to get any better than what I got. Yeah, it's almost like a question of the

hustings for the next leader, I thought. I also think the other thing, the massive irony here is

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