FINALLY, DAVID CAMERON BOWS OUT FOR THERESA AS NEW BRITISH PM

British Prime Minister David Cameron has bowed out of his final Eu summit by urging his successor to forge strong ties with the bloc.

“This is a sad night for me,” says Cameron. “I threw myself in, head, heart and soul. And I didn’t succeed.”

“While we seek the best possible partnership that we can after leaving the European Union, it is impossible to have all of the benefits of memberships, without some of the costs of membership.

That is something the next government is going to have to think through very carefully.”

The outgoing premier said the UK would not “turn its back on Europe.”

Meanwhile, European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker sought more clarity from the leave camp.

He said that if a Leave campaigner became the next British prime minister then they should trigger the EU’s exit clause -Article 50 – immediately.

“What i don’t understand is that those who wanted to leave are totally unable to tell us what they want. But i hope that the notification by the next British government will arrive as soon as possible.”

There will be an informal meeting of 27 EU leaders will be held on Wednesday. The leaders will reflect on the kind of relationship they want to have with the United Kingdom in the future.

Then, after all of the flamboyant characters and very public backstabbing in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, the winner turned out to be an understated workhorse who maintained a low profile throughout the campaign.

Home Secretary Theresa May, 59, is not well-known internationally, but she has served for six years in one of Britain's toughest jobs, playing an important role in counter-terrorism policy, and will now take charge of delicate negotiations to separate Britain from the European Union.

May will be the first female leader of Britain since Margaret Thatcher, the famously resolute politician -- nicknamed "The Iron Lady" -- who was the leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, and prime minister from 1979 to 1990, the longest reign of the 20th Century in that post.

May as a candidate was less visible -- and less talked about as a likely future prime minister -- than Treasury Chief George Osborne and former London Mayor Boris Johnson, but she proved to be the stealth candidate, outmaneuvering both in the intense competition to follow David Cameron after his resignation at 10 Downing Street.

In the end, the conservatives were attempting to choose between May and Andrea Leadsom. Leadsom withdrew after a weekend uproar over comments she made suggesting that being a mother would be an advantage in the job. Leadsom has children; May does not.

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