Theresa May was applauded as she made her farewell speech on the steps of 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday just before she was driven down to Buckingham Palace to formally submit her resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.
The 62-year-old outgoing British Prime Minister spoke of the “heavy honour” of having served as Prime Minister of the UK and wished her successor, Boris Johnson, the best in his endeavour to see the country through the crucial challenge of leaving the European Union (EU).
“Their successes will be our country’s successes,” she said of Johnson and her other future successors in the post of British prime minister.
“Brexit must be finished in a way that works for the whole of the UK. Then Britain can move to a bright future,” she said, in her final speech at Downing Street.