i think the answer to that is i think not i'm about to leave downing street but i'm proud to continue as the member of parliament for maidenhead i will continue to do all i can to serve the national interest and play my part in making our united kingdom a great country with a great future a country that truly works for everyone. it was a british. thank you because she's standing in front of 10 downing street with her husband philip who she described as her greatest supporter and friend their final goodbye. before the couple of head for buckingham palace where the reason we were officially handed her resignation to the queen.

and watching those scenes is also our correspondent barbara visit she's standing in front of 10 downing street. but of the final good bye bye to resume as prime minister at 10 downing street you heard what she had to say what did you make of her comments. it was quick and sweet and she did keep it together in motion only this time she had plenty of time beforehand to prepare for this moment which of course is always a very hard thing to do because changeover here in downing street is quick and brutal she's now just leaving in her power for the last time the seat of government and then she will go up to buckingham palace to sort of take leave from the queen and a little while later maybe an hour hour and a half the next channon will move into downing street number 10 boris johnson and in the meantime moving boxes have been carried out through the back door to resume a sort of found

a few gracious words for her successor of course she wished him good luck and we have to look to the future and she corrected i mean that is what she what she can say at this moment but was it was sort of a nice and particular truth was there that she talked to 2 girls young women telling them that you could achieve anything if you really wanted it they too could become prime minister however there is a certain irony in it because everybody who has watched a reason may for the last 3 years here what would i really want that job. if she was ready to balcony composed and resolute as she made her final best as prime minister she also talked about a new beginning for the nation a time of national renewal but when history looks back at how will the judge because the last 3 years as prime minister have been really thought. it has been a fraud time and he hasn't achieved anything really much she has achieved anything

big anything lasting and particularly she hasn't achieved breck's it and her main problem was. apart from her character that made her like it difficult communicator that people sort of said you know she she is the maybe but she sort of keeps repeating herself. elo throughout the last weeks as if a little weight was lifted off her shoulders but what will be left from her is not really anything at all she will be remembered as the prime minister who sort of stumbled over breakfast that she couldn't and couldn't drag it across the line and so she sort of half has to hand on to boris johnson and said ok good luck with that one and if she talks about national renewal now of course that is what johnson sort of now tries to talk up you know we have to close the chapter of facts and then everything will be if find everything will be great we'll have

a new morning and so on and that of course is a lot of rhetoric to reason they know what it really takes and so in her heart she didn't say it of course and in her heart she knows that it's going to be the next one having a very hard time here in downing street so we're watching that campbell kid which is heading to once buckingham palace almost there from the pictures that i'm looking at and then she'll be going to the queen and handing in her resignation and surely that will be a difficult time for her because she said so much story she was so determined to make something out of brick said and yet that begs that legacy is going to haunt her for the rest of her life. she is a particularly beautiful person she's a parson's daughter she comes from that sort of the church background where the 1st thing you learn as a child is that you always have to do right you have to do you judy you have to stand by your cars and she has really showing those correct touristic and if we look at what president across wrote yesterday about her when he congratulated or is

that it was a force against him but she wrote it he praised trees a made for her fairness in negotiation. that sort of looking to both sides that needed to find a resolution to the problems there and so that was really her particulars. training's in a way but then of course it was also her downfall but we cause politically probably she wasn't flexible enough on one hand and she wasn't ruthless enough she sort of allowed the hard line breaks to cheers the right wing of the tory party to dominate her at the end of her premiership and there was somehow no getting away from them and they in the end brought her down and their jubilant now so she knows all this but it will in a way she she seems more or less what they call here the mob happy she she is sort of relieved in a way because she knows that she has done her best and it was just not enough right

we've just seen terrorism has arrived at buckingham palace she was welcomed by palace officials and she's now walked in to meet the queen barbara visit outside 10 downing street as you said they'll be a new tenant there soon thank you very much for your reporting from there. ok now let me draw in of the correspondent a shot a fox or she is at a buckingham palace watching the developments there. what do you make of what today is i may have to say enough on his speech. but it was somewhat emotional i mean as barbara said that she was an extremely dutiful person and i think so having in public office that just meant the world to her she really wanted to deliver bricks in it and she in the end wasn't able to and that cost her her job . she had to resign in the end she will stay on of course as a member of parliament constituency she said but these are all things that she is

probably going to discuss with the queen now and you mentioned the reason may just arrived at buckingham palace a short while ago the queen arrived as well from windsor castle the queen there had postponed some a vacation has some a stay in scotland to see this transition of power through because of course she is the constitutional head of state and she needs to oversee this transition of power from 2 reason made to boris johnson and charlotte give us a sense of the march that we're looking at live pictures this seem to be some people there gathered outside buckingham palace but not that many. yeah of course this is an exciting time for the u.k. i think that many people just don't know that this is happening right now in this transition i mean this is all happening behind closed doors i was just talking to some tourists who are having 8 more exactly now it's 2 to 5 when he recently is

meeting with the queen and they had no idea that this was happening but as i said behind closed doors we'd all love to be a fly on the wall cause seeing what reason may and the queen will discuss and then later on boris johnson and the queen so what is happening what we know no details will be published but we know. may is recommending her successor she is recommending boris johnson she is telling the queen that he boris johnson can command a majority in parliament and then boris johnson will arrive at buckingham palace to basically draw policy plans for his premiership and present them to the queen this is the 1st official meeting the queen bee will be then be appointing boris johnson as the next prime minister and it could get a little contentious and there of course the queen has to remain politically neutral but she can give out warnings and she can give out advice and boris johnson

has promised in his campaign for the conservative leadership that he would. suspend parliament if it came to a no deal grex it just is he would find a way around parliament and decide to sell the u.k. he leaves the european union without a deal on october 31st it was something that he suggested in the campaign and that would be something that the queen could just not watch and not say anything about if this were to happen so it could be a very controversial meeting between the 2 of them we will not learn the details unfortunately but it would be interesting to be that fly on the wall you know but if you did go the way that you just described i'm sure the queen will not be amused now we just had a look at some of the people who have gathered there and there are obviously some protestors and they're carrying a big poster which says put it to the people rich i guess means that they would like to see

a 2nd. another referendum and ask the people of britain what they really want but returning back to tourism a no we often think of somebody who's very strong and tough but there was a moment a weakness when she 1st announced her resignation outside 10 downing street and everybody was taken aback by a fire. when a voice broke and she broke into tears. exactly emerita i mean that was a very emotional moment recent may when she 1st announced that resignation and it was also reported while the in the press i have thought many times that this would be something that might have not happened to a male prime minister that that would be so wildly reported but very emotional statement there nothing in comparison to today i think she has basically come to the conclusion that this is the end of her career as prime minister that she ran

against walls that she has tried time and time again to make breaks that happen and in the end she failed. and one of the things that she mentioned in the 1st resignation speech and she mentioned again today in a final speech as prime minister about being a female prime minister and she said the 1st time that i'm not the 1st female prime minister but i'm not the last one and today she also said that she hopes that the fact that she was prime minister would inspire young girls in the country and that is a nice touch to her final comments wasn't it charlotte. yes i think so i mean of course she wasn't the 1st female prime minister as you mentioned margaret said so was margaret thatcher being by the way one of 14 prime ministers have served under the queen that is something that i wanted to mention before boris johnson is going to be the 14th prime minister serving under queen elizabeth who

has been in power since 952 as a female head of state and she has set an example for many women in this country over the last decades but of course for 2 reason may i think it also always played a role for her being female prime minister she was always very high. on whatever emotion she showed really on her tears and that resignation speech as we mentioned she was judged on her outfits we know that the british press. is overly judging. their elected officials particular to resume and she also had a tough time with her mostly male party the conservative party where she often ran into walls that's right and they were often comments that and for the british conservative party is a fairly massaging despotic and they treat their female members not as gallantly as they should well to day to day is that we earlier this morning she faced her last

question time and she has a lot of kind of political following that took place and you were following some of that tell us about it. well see this is the usual practice in the united kingdom that every wednesday at noon the prime minister goes to parliament and faces questions of the members of parliament and of the leader of the opposition party who is at the moment labor boss jeremy kolbe and jeremy coleman for example why is she hadn't done anything about the rising poverty during her time in office to recent may was treating this basically as business as usual and she was also suggesting to jeremy call been that she that he that he should resign and do it the way that she did that he should resign as leader from his so quite a few back and nice back and forth between to reason may and jeremy corbyn and

of course questions about certain policies about breaks it also but all in all i think she has come to the conclusion that her time in office has ended and that she has to now give over the policy. and give over the premiership to boris johnson who's a very divisive figure here and the u.k. this is what a many people think he on the one hand is celebrated for his optimism for his energy for bringing now fresh wind into office and into number 10 downing street and maybe also to palm and much needed because we know that that breaks a deadline is coming up at the end of october so that on the one hand his supporters saying on the other hand his critics are saying that now there is a clown and entertainer number 10 downing street somebody who will run this country

into the abyss if he does as promised and takes the euro the u.k. out of the european union without a deal so a very divisive figure and that also reflects in society here in great britain the society is quite polarized on the issue of breck's it and also on the new prime minister to be boris johnson now as you were talking we just have come in one of the most getting a huge banner saying britain has changed its mind briggs it and the green force is exactly what he was saying the country is still really divided over the issue of breaks it. absolutely i'm rita and what is very interesting it's now it's been 3 years since the referendum since the u.k. decided to leave the european union 3 years since theresa may has been in office now theresa may has tried to make the u.k. she has gone to brussels she has negotiated over the past couple of you.