Theresa May has spoken of her frustration over not being able to see Brexit through and underestimating how “entrenched” the country’s MPs had become on the issue of Britain’s exit from the European Union in her final television interview as the British Prime Minister.

May, who is currently serving as caretaker Prime Minister during the course of a leadership contest between UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, was forced to announce her resignation amid mounting rebellion within her own Cabinet over Brexit at the end of May.

“It had been incredibly frustrating that MPs on either side of the leave-remain divide had got so sort of entrenched that they just were not willing to make that compromise that would enable us to get the majority to get this through,” May said in a BBC interview in 10 Downing Street on Friday.

“I sacrificed my job in order to try to get a deal. I sat down and tried to get a compromise with Jeremy Corbyn to try to get a deal that would get through Parliament,” she said.