Theresa May sat on Wednesday where she has always sat in the House of Commons for five years: in the middle of the government benches, right at the top of the stairs, first place in row three. The first were on Wednesday Prime Minister’s Questions, since she announced her withdrawal at the next election, and because these are something of a weekly main performance in the British Parliament, it was the prime minister’s first opportunity to pay tribute. But Rishi Sunak said nothing, not a word, to May, and it is now fitting with her long, impressive, contradictory career that it was not her own party leader who paid tribute to her. But Keir Starmer, the opposition leader. Starmer said he wished her a pleasant and well-deserved retirement and that she had “always served this house with a sense of duty.” May smiled, it looked like she was touched.
Theresa May stops: a bit of regret as a farewell – politics
