The man who bellows “stop Brexit” in and around Westminster interrupted Theresa May’s final speech, and was met with a frosty but good-natured retort by the outgoing prime minister.
The outgoing premier was nearing the end of her farewell speech on the steps of Downing Street with her husband Philip at her side.
She was mid-way through a tribute to her spouse when the familiar foghorn-like “stop Brexit” cry of pro-EU campaigner Steve Bray could be heard.
May grimaced and muttered “the answer to that is: I think not” while her husband could be heard to joke “that wasn’t me”.
The PM now will hand her resignation to the Queen to make way for Boris Johnson.
Moments earlier May completed her final PMQs and left the Commons to the sound of applause from the Tory benches, with Labour and SNP MPs refusing to join in the clapping.
May used her speech at Number 10 to call on Johnson, who has said he is prepared to leave without a deal on October 31, to negotiate a Brexit agreement that “works for the whole United Kingdom”.
She also thanked the British people for “putting your faith in me and giving me the chance to serve”.
She added: “This is a country of aspiration and opportunity and I hope that every young girl who has seen a woman prime minister now knows for sure that there are no limits to what they can achieve.”
May reserved her warmest words for her husband, however.
She said: “Finally and most of all, I want to thank my husband Philip – who has been my greatest supporter and my closest companion.”
May has said she will continue as MP for Maidenhead.
Bray, who is from Port Talbot, is outside parliament every day that MPs are sitting.
Sporting a blue top-hat with a yellow hat-band, his loud, daily protests against Britain’s planned exit from the European Union have made him a thorn in the side of broadcasters and politicians trying to record interviews and speeches near the Commons.