Theresa May set to become British Prime Minister within days

[Inseriousity.]

Wednesday evening by the looks of things, we'll have our next female PM.
These people (Osborne, Johnson, May) have been planning their leadership campaign for a decade, probably imagining all sorts of pain and struggle. Osborne's oily schemes with his spider-web of contacts and allies fell apart with the Leave vote, Johnson got stabbed in the back and Leadsom just stands aside. May just waltzes into 10 downing street like a leadership election is a piece of cake lol.

[-:Undertaker:-]

She's officially party leader this very minute but not Prime Minister.

David Cameron is no longer Tory leader says Graham Brady

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) July 11, 2016

Constitutionally this has no impact as the PM is only required to be leader of the largest party in the Commons solely by convention and not legality. It's actually possible for a Lord/Marquees/Earl/Duke from the upper chamber to be PM (as was case before 20th century) or even you and me without a seat in Parliament. It's all by convention. The last member of the upper house to be appointed Prime Minister was Earl Home by Queen Elizabeth II in 1963.

Here's where David Cameron fits into in terms of tenure of office since our first PM The Earl of Orford Sir Robert Walpole in 1721 out of a total of 53 PMs.