Theresa May quit in tears today after a tumultuous 24 hours in which her ministers finally wielded the knife for her failure to deliver Brexit.
She delivered 1,000 words in a little under six-and-a-half minutes in the gently warming spring sunshine in Downing Street this morning to bring a close to her leadership after less than three years.
After being nicknamed the 'Maybot' over a perceived inability to show emotion she finally broke as she finished addressing the world at 10.10am, chocking over her words as she said she was leaving with 'enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love'.
And that was not the only emotional display she made after a gruelling few months at the top of Government.
Inside No 10 staff then gave her a standing ovation and an emotional Mrs May paid tribute to them and her husband Phillip exclaiming: 'It's been a journey', before the the couple returned to their Berkshire home for the weekend.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Home Secretary Sajid Javid had started a chain-reaction after they both demanded private meetings yesterday and told her face-to-face they would be refusing to back her deal with the EU.
But both failed to tell her to resign or quit themselves as House of Commons Andrea Leadsom did hours earlier.
After a night at her Berkshire home with her husband Philip, the couple returned to No 10 together where she told staff she had decided to resign as Tory leader on June 7, after Donald Trump's visit to Britain.
A meeting with Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, then sealed her fate after Tory backbenchers sent him in threatening to oust her if she failed to name her exit date.
It was shortly after this meeting that she emerged to announce her decision in front of a wall of waiting cameras.
This is how the last 24 hours unfolded for the PM:
It was 10.10am this morning when Theresa May cried outside Downing Street, choking over her words as she said she was leaving with 'enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love'
Minutes later she and husband Philip left Downing Street for the weekend as she faces the last fortnight in charge of the nation.
11am Thursday: Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - who has since indicated he will run to replace Mrs May - headed to No 10 where he told her to abandon plans to put her Withdrawal Agreement Bill to a vote by MPs next month.
Mr Hunt, one of more than a dozen Tory MPs hoping to succeed her, said it was not fair to ask loyal MPs to vote for a toxic compromise that had no chance of succeeding. But he did not tell her to quit - or threaten to resign himself.
His intervention came after a day of high drama in the Commons where Mrs May was seen leaving Parliament with tears in her eyes after she was battered during a debate on her Brexit bill.
To make matters worse Andrea Leadsom then called her to tell her she would resign.
Jeremy Hunt visited Theresa May where he told her that he could not support her deal but did not resign
A teary-eyed Theresa May was driven away from Parliament late on Wednesday afternoon after facing a brutal session of Brexit questions in the Commons chamber on Wednesday
2.30pm: Home Secretary Sajid Javid, another potential leadership candidate, also met with the Prime Minister.
He warned her he could not back her Brexit legislation unless she dropped the option of a second referendum.
Scottish Secretary David Mundell wanted a meeting but it is not clear if this was blocked by the PM.
Prime Minster Theresa May and her husband Philip cast their vote at a polling station during the European elections in her Maidenhead constituency at around 4pm on Thursday. Less than 24 hours later she would have announced her resignation
4pm: The Prime Minister is driven to her Maidenhead constituency where she votes in the European elections. Mr and Mrs May smiled to photographers after voting Tory.
But the pre-election polls looked awful for the PM, with the Brexit Party more than 20 per cent ahead. The results will not be known until Sunday night, but leading MEP candidate Daniel Hannan predicted a Tory 'wipe out'.
The gloomy European election predictions are likely to have influenced her decision to go.
Thursday night: Rather than head back to No 10, the Prime Minister chose to stay at her constituency home in Berkshire mulling her exit strategy with her husband Philip - who was yesterday urged by Brexiteers to
