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
party eye years
It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.
cat rights pet
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
gay adoption mind
On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
clothes should source
I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.
snakes might indiana
Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
retirement children moving
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.
speak-english people able
Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
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.
immigration candidates
Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.
pain tough-times tough
In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
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.
behaviour crime social
There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
house cooking cookbook
I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.
teenage godmother
I was a teenage godmother.