Prime Minister Theresa May's first statement

"I have just been to Buckingham Palace, where Her Majesty The Queen has asked me to form a new government, and I accepted." Theresa May gave a statement in Downing Street on 13 July 2016, the day she became Prime Minister. View the statement: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/statement-from-the-new-prime-minister-theresa-may