David Cameron Chairs Last Cabinet Meeting as PM

After raising the profile of India-UK relations since 2010 through what he called a “new special relationship”, Prime Minister David Cameron chaired his last cabinet meeting on Tuesday before leaving office.

At midday Mr Cameron, who has said he plans to continue as MP for Witney in Oxfordshire, will face Prime Minister’s Questions for the 182nd and final time as PM – his 319th in total as Tory leader.

David Cameron is getting ready to move out.

Mr Cameron told the Telegraph: “I came into Downing Street to confront our problems as a country and lead people through hard decisions so that together we could reach better times“.

“I came into Downing Street to confront our problems as a country and lead people through hard decisions so we could reach better times“, he said. “It has been a privilege to serve the country I love”.

Whitman said after May’s audience with the queen, she will then be taken to Downing Street where she will assume the role of prime minister.

Cameron said he was “delighted” that May will be the next prime minister in a statement Monday.

“She is strong, she is competent, she is more than able to provide the leadership that our country is going to need in the years ahead and she will have my full support”, he said.

Although a Remain supporter, Mrs May has repeatedly stressed that “Brexit means Brexit” and the hunt for a building to house the department that will steer Britain out of the European Union is already under way.

A focus on India was often mentioned by former Labour governments led by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but it was Cameron who took relations to a new level, which included lifting in 2013 a decade-long boycott of Gujarat under Narendra Modi after the 2002 riots.

The swift transition of power comes after the expected nine-week leadership campaign was truncated to just a couple of days by leading Brexit campaigner Andrea Leadsom’s surprise withdrawal. Boris Johnson and George Osborne were frontrunners to replace him.

Mrs May, a founder of the Women2Win group to increase the number of female MPs, is keen to see more women in “prominent” roles.