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Theresa May has hit out at those who mocked her tears on the steps of Number 10, saying if a male prime minister wept they would be hailed a patriot.
The outgoing PM was tearful as she announced in May that she would stand down when her successor – either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt – is chosen.
In her address, she described the job as “the honour of my life to hold – the second female prime minister but certainly not the last.” Mrs May said she was leaving with “enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.”
Discussing the moment she crumbled saying those words on the steps of 10 Downing Street, Mrs May told the Mail: “If a male Prime Minister’s voice had broken up, it would have been said ‘what great patriotism, they really love their country’. But if a female Prime Minister does it, it is ‘why is she crying?’.”
Mrs May said she “did everything” she could to get Brexit “over the line”. She pointed to her willingness to work with Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and ultimately to lose her position as leader as evidence of the lengths she was willing to go.
“People have asked me: ‘Why didn’t you tip the table over?’ But if you do that constantly, it’s like the little girl crying wolf – it ceases to have an effect,” Mrs May said.
The new Tory leader will be announced on July 23 following a ballot of Conservative members and will take over as prime minister the following day.
Theresa May – In pictures
1/74 24th May 2019
Theresa May announces her resignation
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2/74 22nd May 2019
Theresa May reacts during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons
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3/74 21st May 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at PricewaterhouseCoopers ahead of her speech on a new Brexit deal
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4/74 2nd May 2019
Theresa May arrives to cast her vote a polling station near her home in her Maidenhead constituency as voters headed to the polls for council and mayoral elections across England and Northern Ireland
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5/74 19th April 2019
Theresa May acts as a marshal during the Maidenhead Easter 10 race in Maidenhead
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6/74 24th March 2019
Theresa May and her husband Philip May leave following a church service on March 24, 2019 in Aylesbury
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7/74 20th March 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the nation after asking the European Union for a Brexit extension
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8/74 14th March 2019
Theresa May reacting on the front bench in the House of Commons during the proceedings in which British MPs voted to ask the European Union to delay Brexit
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9/74 16th January 2019
Theresa May addresses the media at number 10 Downing street after her government defeated a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons
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10/74 16th January 2019
Theresa May leaves Downing Street to face a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons
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11/74 14th December 2018
Theresa May challenges European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker for suggesting that her message on Brexit had been “nebulous”
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12/74 13th December 2018
Theresa May is seen behind EU flags as she arrives at the European Council for the start of the two day EU summit in Brussels, Belgium
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13/74 3rd October 2018
A composite picture of Prime Minister Theresa May dancing as she arrives on stage to make her keynote speech at the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham
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14/74 20th September 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for a ‘family photo’ during the European Union leaders informal summit in Salzburg, Austria
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15/74 13th July 2018
Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump walk to a joint news conference at Chequers
Hannah McKay/Reuters
16/74 12th July 2018
US President Donald Trump takes the hand of Prime Minister Theresa May as they enter Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire
PA
17/74 22nd November 2017
Theresa May on Budget Day
Jeremy Selwyn
18/74 3rd November 2017
The finishing touches are made to the new wax figure of Prime Minister Theresa May by Rosie Tipler
Victoria Jones/PA
19/74 20th October 2017
Theresa May attending a bilateral meeting, on the second day of the European Council in Brussels, Belgium
EPA
20/74 26th September 2017
Theresa May welcomes the President of the European Council Donald Tusk, ahead of a meeting in Downing Street
Will Oliver/EPA
21/74 20th September 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May meets US President Donald Trump for talks at the Lotte Palace Hotel, New York
Stefan Rousseau/PA
22/74 10th August 2017
Madame Tussauds London commissions a new wax figure of Theresa May
Madame Tussauds
23/74 8th July 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May talks with U.S. President Donald Trump during the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany
Carlos Barria/Reuters
24/74 15th June 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to members of the fire service as she visits Grenfell Tower.
25/74 4th October 2017
Lee Nelson AKA Simon Brodkin hands a ‘P45’ to Prime Minister Theresa May ,as she was delivering her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre in Manchester
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26/74 4th October 2017
Letter fall off the backboard during Theresa May’s speech on the final day of the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre in Manchester
27/74 4th October 2017
Theresa May coughing during her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre
Bruce Adams/Daily Mail
28/74 4th October 2017
Theresa May coughing during her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre
Reuters
29/74 4th October 2017
Theresa May drinks a glass of water during her keynote speech
Bruce Adams/Daily Mail
30/74 31st July 2017
Theresa May arrives at the Commonwealth War Graves Commisions’s Tyne Cot Cemetery ahead of a ceremony on July 31, 2017 in Ypres, Belgium
Leon Neal/Getty Images
31/74 25th July 2017
Theresa May and her husband Philip visit Desenzano del Garda, near Lake Garda, Italy, last month
Antonio Calanni/PA
32/74 17th July 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May holding a cabinet meeting
Leon Neal/PA
33/74 10th July 2017
Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, walks with Prime Minister Theresa May and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, as they arrive to speak to first responders from the emergency services outside Southwark Cathedral during a visit to the Borough Market area in central London
Niklas Halle’n/Pool via AP
34/74 21st June 2017
PM Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn walking back after listening to Queen’s Speech
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35/74 9th June 2017
Theresa May addressing press at Downing Street after seeing the Queen
Jeremy Selwyn
36/74 9th June 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May is applauded into 10 Downing Street in by staff after seeing The Queen, where she asked to form a new government
Stefan Rousseau/PA
37/74 9th June 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May and husband Philip leave Downing Street to travel to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Queen Elizabeth II after the General Election which lost the Tory majority
Jonathan Brady/PA
38/74 8th June 2017
Theresa May visits the Dhamecha Lohana Centre in Harrow
Jeremy Selwyn
39/74 7th June 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May on a visit to Smithfield Market in the City of London on the final day of campaigning for the General Election
Stefan Rousseau/PA
40/74 22nd May 2017
Theresa May gestures as she answers a media question regarding social care policy during a launch event for the Welsh Conservative general election manifesto in Wrexham, North Wales
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41/74 18th May 2017
Pegasus Street Art: Theresa May ‘Dressed to Kill’
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42/74 2nd May 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May having some chips while on a walkabout during a election campaign stop in Mevagissey, Cornwall
PA
43/74 19th April 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement to the nation in Downing Street
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44/74 28th March 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May in the cabinet office signs the official letter to European Council President Donald Tusk invoking Article 50 and the United Kingdom’s intention to leave the EU
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45/74 27th January 2017
US President Donald Trump holds hands with Prime Minister Teresa May as they walk the colonnade of the White House in Washington, DC
EPA
46/74 5th October 2016
Theresa May and husband Philip after her speech at the Conservative Party Conference, Birmingham
Jeremy Selwyn
47/74 20th July 2016
Theresa May was known for her shoes
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48/74 12th August 2016
Theresa May walks with her husband Philip John May while on summer holiday in the Alps of Switzerland
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49/74 13th July 2016
Theresa May speaks outside 10 Downing Street after becoming Prime Minister
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50/74 13th July 2016
The Queen welcomes Theresa May at the start of an audience where she invited the former Home Secretary to become Prime Minister and form a new government at Buckingham Palace
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51/74 12th July 2016
Prime Minister-in-waiting, Theresa May, reacts to photographers after walking to the wrong car after attending a Cabinet meeting at Downing Stree
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52/74 11th July 2016
New Conservative Party leader Theresa May speaks to members of the media with her MPs behind her at The St Stephen’s entrance to the Palace of Westminster
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53/74 29th June 2015
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere (L), Tunisia’s Interior Minister Mohamed Gharsalli and British Home Secretary Theresa May look on after laying flowers at the scene where 38 people were killed on Marhaba beach
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54/74 3rd March 2015
Home Secretary Theresa May (2nd R) stands with Prime Minister David Cameron (L) and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg (2nd L) before the arrival of the President of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto and his wife Angelica Rivera at Horse Guards Parade
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55/74 5th November 2013
British Home Secretary Theresa May attends a ceremonial welcome for visiting President of South Korea, Park Geun-Hye (not pictured) at Horseguards Parade on November 5, 2013
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56/74 17th April 2013
Home Secretary Theresa May and husband Philip May arrive for the Ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher
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57/74 20th July 2012
British Home Secretary Theresa May reacts during an interview as she views the Olympics Security control room in the Olympic Park in east London, on July 20, 2012
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58/74 20th February 2012
Theresa May on the front row at the Osman Show during London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012 at Somerset House
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59/74 31st January 2012
Home Secretary Theresa May stopping as the heal of her shoe gets stuck in a gap in the pavement as she arrives at number 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly meeting of the Cabinet
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60/74 12th September 2011
Bernard Hogan-Howe (C), the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, poses for photographs with British Home Secretary Teresa May (L) and Mayor of London Boris Johnson (R) outside New Scotland Yard
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61/74 11th September 2011
Home Secretary Theresa May arrives to attend a memorial service at St Paul’s Cathedral in London on September 11, 2011 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks
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62/74 23rd March 2011
Home Secretary Theresa May leaves Parliament after Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivered his budget on March 23, 2011
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63/74 10th December 2010
Home Secretary Theresa May leaves a cabinet meeting in Downing Street
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64/74 18th October 2010
Home Secretary Theresa May arrives in Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting
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65/74 13th May 2010
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond and Home Secretary Theresa May arrive at 10 Downing Street for the first Cabinet meeting of the new coalition government
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66/74 6th October 2009
Conservative leader David Cameron (R) and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Theresa May (L) walk through the rain on the second day of the Conservative Party Conference
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67/74 20th May 2009
Theresa May, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, arrives for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards at Hilton Park Lane Hotel
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68/74 30th September 2007
Conservative shadow leader of the House of Commons Theresa May addresses delegates during the 124th annual Conservative Party Conference at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool – wearing wellys
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69/74 8th November 2007
Theresa May arrives at the Woman Of The Future Awards at the Grosvenor Marriott Square Hotel
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70/74 8th February 2006
Theresa May attends the Conservative Party Black & White Ball at Old Billingsgate Market
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71/74 13th December 2005
Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron (front) and his shadow cabinet
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72/74 6th October 2003
Theresa May, the Conservative Party Chairman, concludes her opening speech at the annual Conservative Party conference in Blackpool
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73/74 23rd August 2002
The Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith announces the party’s new Chairman Theresa May
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74/74 15th June 1999
Conservative MP Theresa May leaves Conservative Central Office in London, after being appointed shadow Education and Employment secretary
PA
1/74 24th May 2019
Theresa May announces her resignation
Reuters
2/74 22nd May 2019
Theresa May reacts during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons
Sky News
3/74 21st May 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at PricewaterhouseCoopers ahead of her speech on a new Brexit deal
Getty Images
4/74 2nd May 2019
Theresa May arrives to cast her vote a polling station near her home in her Maidenhead constituency as voters headed to the polls for council and mayoral elections across England and Northern Ireland
PA
5/74 19th April 2019
Theresa May acts as a marshal during the Maidenhead Easter 10 race in Maidenhead
PA
6/74 24th March 2019
Theresa May and her husband Philip May leave following a church service on March 24, 2019 in Aylesbury
Getty Images
7/74 20th March 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the nation after asking the European Union for a Brexit extension
EPA
8/74 14th March 2019
Theresa May reacting on the front bench in the House of Commons during the proceedings in which British MPs voted to ask the European Union to delay Brexit
AFP/Getty Images
9/74 16th January 2019
Theresa May addresses the media at number 10 Downing street after her government defeated a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons
Getty Images
10/74 16th January 2019
Theresa May leaves Downing Street to face a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons
Getty Images
11/74 14th December 2018
Theresa May challenges European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker for suggesting that her message on Brexit had been “nebulous”
ec.europa.eu via PA
12/74 13th December 2018
Theresa May is seen behind EU flags as she arrives at the European Council for the start of the two day EU summit in Brussels, Belgium
Getty Images
13/74 3rd October 2018
A composite picture of Prime Minister Theresa May dancing as she arrives on stage to make her keynote speech at the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham
Stefan Rousseau/PA
14/74 20th September 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for a ‘family photo’ during the European Union leaders informal summit in Salzburg, Austria
Reuters
15/74 13th July 2018
Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump walk to a joint news conference at Chequers
Hannah McKay/Reuters
16/74 12th July 2018
US President Donald Trump takes the hand of Prime Minister Theresa May as they enter Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire
PA
17/74 22nd November 2017
Theresa May on Budget Day
Jeremy Selwyn
18/74 3rd November 2017
The finishing touches are made to the new wax figure of Prime Minister Theresa May by Rosie Tipler
Victoria Jones/PA
19/74 20th October 2017
Theresa May attending a bilateral meeting, on the second day of the European Council in Brussels, Belgium
EPA
20/74 26th September 2017
Theresa May welcomes the President of the European Council Donald Tusk, ahead of a meeting in Downing Street
Will Oliver/EPA
21/74 20th September 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May meets US President Donald Trump for talks at the Lotte Palace Hotel, New York
Stefan Rousseau/PA
22/74 10th August 2017
Madame Tussauds London commissions a new wax figure of Theresa May
Madame Tussauds
23/74 8th July 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May talks with U.S. President Donald Trump during the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany
Carlos Barria/Reuters
24/74 15th June 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to members of the fire service as she visits Grenfell Tower.
25/74 4th October 2017
Lee Nelson AKA Simon Brodkin hands a ‘P45’ to Prime Minister Theresa May ,as she was delivering her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre in Manchester
AFP/Getty Images
26/74 4th October 2017
Letter fall off the backboard during Theresa May’s speech on the final day of the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre in Manchester
27/74 4th October 2017
Theresa May coughing during her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre
Bruce Adams/Daily Mail
28/74 4th October 2017
Theresa May coughing during her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre
Reuters
29/74 4th October 2017
Theresa May drinks a glass of water during her keynote speech
Bruce Adams/Daily Mail
30/74 31st July 2017
Theresa May arrives at the Commonwealth War Graves Commisions’s Tyne Cot Cemetery ahead of a ceremony on July 31, 2017 in Ypres, Belgium
Leon Neal/Getty Images
31/74 25th July 2017
Theresa May and her husband Philip visit Desenzano del Garda, near Lake Garda, Italy, last month
Antonio Calanni/PA
32/74 17th July 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May holding a cabinet meeting
Leon Neal/PA
33/74 10th July 2017
Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, walks with Prime Minister Theresa May and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, as they arrive to speak to first responders from the emergency services outside Southwark Cathedral during a visit to the Borough Market area in central London
Niklas Halle’n/Pool via AP
34/74 21st June 2017
PM Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn walking back after listening to Queen’s Speech
Niklas Halle’nAFP/Getty Images
35/74 9th June 2017
Theresa May addressing press at Downing Street after seeing the Queen
Jeremy Selwyn
36/74 9th June 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May is applauded into 10 Downing Street in by staff after seeing The Queen, where she asked to form a new government
Stefan Rousseau/PA
37/74 9th June 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May and husband Philip leave Downing Street to travel to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Queen Elizabeth II after the General Election which lost the Tory majority
Jonathan Brady/PA
38/74 8th June 2017
Theresa May visits the Dhamecha Lohana Centre in Harrow
Jeremy Selwyn
39/74 7th June 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May on a visit to Smithfield Market in the City of London on the final day of campaigning for the General Election
Stefan Rousseau/PA
40/74 22nd May 2017
Theresa May gestures as she answers a media question regarding social care policy during a launch event for the Welsh Conservative general election manifesto in Wrexham, North Wales
AFP/Getty Images
41/74 18th May 2017
Pegasus Street Art: Theresa May ‘Dressed to Kill’
Pegasus
42/74 2nd May 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May having some chips while on a walkabout during a election campaign stop in Mevagissey, Cornwall
PA
43/74 19th April 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement to the nation in Downing Street
Getty Images
44/74 28th March 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May in the cabinet office signs the official letter to European Council President Donald Tusk invoking Article 50 and the United Kingdom’s intention to leave the EU
Getty Images
45/74 27th January 2017
US President Donald Trump holds hands with Prime Minister Teresa May as they walk the colonnade of the White House in Washington, DC
EPA
46/74 5th October 2016
Theresa May and husband Philip after her speech at the Conservative Party Conference, Birmingham
Jeremy Selwyn
47/74 20th July 2016
Theresa May was known for her shoes
Getty Images
48/74 12th August 2016
Theresa May walks with her husband Philip John May while on summer holiday in the Alps of Switzerland
Getty Images
49/74 13th July 2016
Theresa May speaks outside 10 Downing Street after becoming Prime Minister
Getty Images
50/74 13th July 2016
The Queen welcomes Theresa May at the start of an audience where she invited the former Home Secretary to become Prime Minister and form a new government at Buckingham Palace
Getty Images
51/74 12th July 2016
Prime Minister-in-waiting, Theresa May, reacts to photographers after walking to the wrong car after attending a Cabinet meeting at Downing Stree
Getty Images
52/74 11th July 2016
New Conservative Party leader Theresa May speaks to members of the media with her MPs behind her at The St Stephen’s entrance to the Palace of Westminster
AFP/Getty Images
53/74 29th June 2015
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere (L), Tunisia’s Interior Minister Mohamed Gharsalli and British Home Secretary Theresa May look on after laying flowers at the scene where 38 people were killed on Marhaba beach
Getty Images
54/74 3rd March 2015
Home Secretary Theresa May (2nd R) stands with Prime Minister David Cameron (L) and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg (2nd L) before the arrival of the President of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto and his wife Angelica Rivera at Horse Guards Parade
Getty Images
55/74 5th November 2013
British Home Secretary Theresa May attends a ceremonial welcome for visiting President of South Korea, Park Geun-Hye (not pictured) at Horseguards Parade on November 5, 2013
Getty Images
56/74 17th April 2013
Home Secretary Theresa May and husband Philip May arrive for the Ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher
Getty Images
57/74 20th July 2012
British Home Secretary Theresa May reacts during an interview as she views the Olympics Security control room in the Olympic Park in east London, on July 20, 2012
AFP/Getty Images
58/74 20th February 2012
Theresa May on the front row at the Osman Show during London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012 at Somerset House
Getty Images
59/74 31st January 2012
Home Secretary Theresa May stopping as the heal of her shoe gets stuck in a gap in the pavement as she arrives at number 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly meeting of the Cabinet
AFP/Getty Images
60/74 12th September 2011
Bernard Hogan-Howe (C), the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, poses for photographs with British Home Secretary Teresa May (L) and Mayor of London Boris Johnson (R) outside New Scotland Yard
AFP/Getty Images
61/74 11th September 2011
Home Secretary Theresa May arrives to attend a memorial service at St Paul’s Cathedral in London on September 11, 2011 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks
AFP/Getty Images
62/74 23rd March 2011
Home Secretary Theresa May leaves Parliament after Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivered his budget on March 23, 2011
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63/74 10th December 2010
Home Secretary Theresa May leaves a cabinet meeting in Downing Street
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64/74 18th October 2010
Home Secretary Theresa May arrives in Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting
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65/74 13th May 2010
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond and Home Secretary Theresa May arrive at 10 Downing Street for the first Cabinet meeting of the new coalition government
Getty Images
66/74 6th October 2009
Conservative leader David Cameron (R) and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Theresa May (L) walk through the rain on the second day of the Conservative Party Conference
Getty Images
67/74 20th May 2009
Theresa May, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, arrives for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards at Hilton Park Lane Hotel
Getty Images
68/74 30th September 2007
Conservative shadow leader of the House of Commons Theresa May addresses delegates during the 124th annual Conservative Party Conference at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool – wearing wellys
Getty Images
69/74 8th November 2007
Theresa May arrives at the Woman Of The Future Awards at the Grosvenor Marriott Square Hotel
Getty Images
70/74 8th February 2006
Theresa May attends the Conservative Party Black & White Ball at Old Billingsgate Market
Getty Images
71/74 13th December 2005
Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron (front) and his shadow cabinet
Getty Images
72/74 6th October 2003
Theresa May, the Conservative Party Chairman, concludes her opening speech at the annual Conservative Party conference in Blackpool
Getty Images
73/74 23rd August 2002
The Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith announces the party’s new Chairman Theresa May
PA
74/74 15th June 1999
Conservative MP Theresa May leaves Conservative Central Office in London, after being appointed shadow Education and Employment secretary
PA
Mrs May did not name either candidate in her interview, but seemingly alluded to the necessity of character in the UK’s top job.
She said being Prime Minister is not about power but about service to the public.
“All too often those who see it as a position of power see it as about themselves and not about the people they are serving. There is a real difference.”
She considered her inability to deliver Brexit and her reaction to the Grenfell tower disaster as the low points of her time in Downing Street, and listed changes to unemployment levels, wage rises outstripping inflation and increased employment of women among her achievements.
It is unlikely that her successor will negotiate further concessions from the bloc, she said, adding that the next significant challenges lie ahead within Westminster.
“I had assumed mistakenly that the tough bit of the negotiation was with the EU, that Parliament would accept the vote of the British people and just want to get it done, that people who’d spent their lives campaigning for Brexit would vote to get us out on March 29 and May 27. But they didn’t.”