Face of Nation : British Prime Minister Theresa May has been forced to defend her successor Boris Johnson during her final address to the House of Commons.
Appearing in the chamber, Mrs May was asked how she felt about “handing over to a man who among many things is happy to demonise [Muslim people], prepared to chuck our loyal public servants and diplomats under a bus and promises to sell the country out to Donald Trump and his friends”.
As jeers sounded, Mrs May said she was pleased to hand over to “an incoming prime minister who I worked with when he was in my Cabinet and who is committed as a Conservative and who stood on that manifesto in 2017 to deliver on a vote in 2016 and delivering a bright future for this country”. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn took the opportunity to pay tribute to Mrs May’s sense of “public duty and public service” during the session, which he said “should always be recognised”.
“I’m glad the Conservative Party is in such good heart today, because tomorrow they will not be here,” Mr Corbyn added, before commenting on Mrs May’s record as Prime Minister.
Mrs May rejected Mr Corbyn’s comments about the alleged health of the Conservative Party. “It’s very good to see the Conservative Party in good health, which is marked,” she said.
“Let me just say something to you about my record over the last three years and how I measure my record, it is in the opportunity for every child who is now in a better school, it is in the comfort for every person who now has a job for the first time in their life. “It is in the hope of every disadvantaged young person now able to go to university.
“And it is in the joy of every couple who can now move into their own home, because at its heart — politics at its heart — politics is not about exchanges across these dispatch boxes or eloquent speeches or media headlines. “Politics is about the difference we make every day to the lives of people up and down this country. “They are our reason for being here and we should never forget,” she concluded.
