Theresa May
Theresa May
Theresa Mary Mayis the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party. She has also been the Member of Parliamentfor Maidenhead since 1997. May identifies as a one-nation conservative and is characterised as a liberal conservative...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 October 1956
thinking wags would-be
I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.
daughter mother church
I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
teenage godmother
I was a teenage godmother.
party thinking people
[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.
believe important institutions
I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
thinking voters internet
The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.
jobs men mps
Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.
husband night would-be
My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me.
cutting numbers impact
We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.
men issues hey
A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
europe numbers people
As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe.
past firsts persons
I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.
nice shoes saws
I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.
police fighter crime
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.