@smarteruk: May 2019. MPs had voted down Theresa May's Brexit deal three times. Outside Number 10 she told the country she had done everything she could, and that a new Prime Minister should take over. Her last line is the one people remember. Boris Johnson replaced her that July. She left the Commons in 2024 and now sits in the House of Lords. Condensed: about four and a half minutes are cut before "I will shortly leave the job". In them she sets out the leadership timetable, calls not delivering Brexit "a matter of deep regret", says her successor must find the consensus in Parliament that she could not, quotes Sir Nicholas Winton ("compromise is not a dirty word"), and lists her government's record, from the deficit and housing to mental health and the Grenfell inquiry. The rest runs as broadcast. Recorded in 2019, not news. When Parliament can't agree on something this big, who should get the final say? 👇 Source: Theresa May's statement in Downing Street, 24 May 2019 (as published by BBC News). #SmarterUK #UKPolitics #TheresaMay #Brexit #Parliament

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