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Live updates: David Cameron prepares to leave Downing Street

David Cameron has held his final cabinet meeting as prime minister.

Mr Cameron will take his last Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday before offering his resignation to the Queen.

Theresa May will then take office and become leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister later that day.

Speaking after Andrea Leadsom resigned from the leadership contest, Mrs May said she was "honoured and humbled" to have been chosen as the new party leader and pledged that "together we will build a better Britain".

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Andrea Leadsom withdraws bid to be prime minister

Andrea Leadsom on Monday morning Credit: Pool

Andrea Leadsom has withdrawn her bid to be prime minister.

The junior energy minister said a nine-week leadership campaign at such a critical time for the UK would be "highly undesirable" and said she had decided she did not have sufficient support among MPs "to lead a strong and stable government."

She added that Theresa May was ideally placed to implement Brexit and offered the Home Secretary her full support.

Speaking on the steps of her campaign HQ in Westminster, she wished May "the very greatest success."

Leadsom pulled out the day after apologising to her Tory leadership candidate rival over comments she had made about motherhood to The Times newspaper.

  • The chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee is due to make a statement following Leadsom's departure, amid speculation that he will confirm that, as the only candidate remaining on the ballot paper, May can become leader without facing a vote of the party's 150,000 members.
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