The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

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.

Well, a Prime Minister's voice breaking there.

Well, that was perhaps one of the most emotional speeches I think I've ever seen any Prime Minister make,

clearly very, very much emotionally affected by what she's just said.

To confirm Theresa May has stepped down as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,

and she will leave as leader on 7th of June, as we sort of predicted.

Ross Camps is here with me.

Ross, that was quite a moment.

A massive, extraordinary moment in British politics, which has been expected and which has

been bubbling for months.

The Prime Minister finally giving up.

She was breaking up.

Her voice was breaking, as she said that she is leaving the

job that she loved, that she said has been her honour to hold. She identified as her achievements

in that statement, jobs, housing, the environment. She touched upon again the burning injustices,

which she identified as her policy priority when she became Prime Minister in her

first speech on the 13th of July 2016. 1,045 days later, Theresa May leaves office. She says she will

step down formally on the 7th of June. Two weeks away, literally. A Tory leadership election

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