73 Facts About Prime Minister Theresa May

Prime Minister Theresa May served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 in the Cameron government and has been the Member of Parliament for the Maidenhead in Berkshire since 1997.

Prime Minister Theresa May was Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2002 to 2003.

In July 2016, after David Cameron resigned, May was elected Conservative Party leader and became the UK's second female prime minister after Margaret Thatcher.

Prime Minister Theresa May began the process of withdrawing the UK from the European Union, triggering Article 50 in March 2017.

Prime Minister Theresa May survived a vote of no confidence from Conservative MPs in December 2018 and a vote of no confidence tabled by Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn in January 2019.

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Prime Minister Theresa May oversaw a £20 billion increase in funding to the National Health Service through the NHS Long Term Plan, established the first-ever Race Disparity Audit and launched a 25 Year Environment Plan, amending the Climate Change Act 2008 to end the UK's contribution to global warming by 2050.

Theresa May was born on 1 October 1956 in Eastbourne, Sussex, May is the only child of Zaidee Mary and Hubert Brasier.

Prime Minister Theresa May's father died in 1981, from injuries sustained in a car accident, and her mother of multiple sclerosis the following year.

Prime Minister Theresa May initially attended Heythrop Primary School, a state school in Heythrop, followed by St Juliana's Convent School for Girls, a Roman Catholic independent school in Begbroke, which closed in 1984.

Prime Minister Theresa May attended the University of Oxford, read geography at St Hugh's College, and graduated with a second class BA degree in 1977.

Between 1977 and 1983, Prime Minister Theresa May worked at the Bank of England, and from 1985 to 1997, at the Association for Payment Clearing Services, as a financial consultant.

Prime Minister Theresa May served as Head of the European Affairs Unit from 1989 to 1996 and Senior Adviser on International Affairs from 1996 to 1997 in the organisation.

Prime Minister Theresa May served as a councillor for Durnsford ward on the Borough Council of the London Borough of Merton from 1986 to 1994, where she was Chairman of Education and Deputy Group Leader and Housing Spokesman.

Prime Minister Theresa May then stood at the 1994 Barking by-election, which was prompted by the death of Labour MP Jo Richardson.

Around 18 months ahead of the 1997 general election, Prime Minister Theresa May was selected as the Conservative candidate for Maidenhead, a new seat which was created from parts of the safe seats of Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham.

Prime Minister Theresa May became the first of the 1997 MPs to enter the Shadow Cabinet when in 1999 she was appointed Shadow Education and Employment Secretary.

Prime Minister Theresa May was appointed the first female Chairman of the Conservative Party in July 2002.

In 2003, after Michael Howard's election as Conservative Party and Opposition Leader in November that year, Prime Minister Theresa May was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Transport and the Environment.

In January 2009, Prime Minister Theresa May was made Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Prime Minister Theresa May was the longest-serving Home Secretary for over 60 years, since James Chuter Ede who served over six years and two months from August 1945 to October 1951.

In June 2010, Prime Minister Theresa May faced her first major national security incident as Home Secretary with the Cumbria shootings.

Also in June 2010, Prime Minister Theresa May banned the Indian Muslim preacher Zakir Naik from entering the United Kingdom.

In late June 2010, Prime Minister Theresa May announced plans for a temporary cap on UK visas for non-EU migrants.

The Liberal Democrats had blocked the first attempt, but after the Conservative Party obtained a majority in the 2015 general election Prime Minister Theresa May announced a new Draft Investigatory Powers Bill similar to the Draft Communications Data Bill, although with more limited powers and additional oversight.

In July 2010, Prime Minister Theresa May presented the House of Commons with proposals for a fundamental review of the previous Labour government's security and counter-terrorism legislation, including "stop and search" powers, and her intention to review the 28-day limit on detaining terrorist suspects without charge.

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In July 2010, Prime Minister Theresa May announced a package of reforms to policing in England and Wales in the House of Commons.

In common with the Conservative Party 2010 general election manifesto's flagship proposal for a "Big Society" based on voluntary action, Prime Minister Theresa May proposed increasing the role of civilian "reservists" for crime control.

In 2012, despite inquiries by both Scotland Yard and the Independent Police Complaints Commission ruling that there was no new evidence to warrant further investigation, after discussions with Doreen Lawrence, Prime Minister Theresa May commissioned Mark Ellison to review Scotland Yard's investigations into alleged police corruption.

In 2014, Prime Minister Theresa May delivered a speech to the Police Federation, in which she criticised aspects of the culture of the police force.

On 9 December 2010, in the wake of violent student demonstrations in central London against increases to higher-education tuition fees, Prime Minister Theresa May praised the actions of the police in controlling the demonstrations but was described by The Daily Telegraph as "under growing political pressure" due to her handling of the protests.

In July 2010, Prime Minister Theresa May proposed to review the previous Labour Government's anti-social behaviour legislation signalling the abolition of the "Anti-Social Behaviour Order".

Prime Minister Theresa May identified the policy's high level of failure with almost half of ASBOs breached between 2000 and 2008, leading to "fast-track" criminal convictions.

In July 2013, Prime Minister Theresa May decided to ban the stimulant khat, against the advice of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

In 2010, Prime Minister Theresa May promised to bring the level of net migration down to less than 100,000.

In June 2012, Theresa May announced that new restrictions would be introduced to reduce the number of non-European Economic Area family migrants.

At the Conservative Party Conference in October 2011, while arguing that the Human Rights Act needed to be amended, Prime Minister Theresa May gave the example of a foreign national who the Courts ruled was allowed to remain in the UK, "because—and I am not making this up—he had a pet cat".

In June 2012, Prime Minister Theresa May was found in contempt of court by Judge Barry Cotter, and stood accused of "totally unacceptable and regrettable behaviour", being said to have shown complete disregard for a legal agreement to free an Algerian from a UK Immigration Detention Centre.

Prime Minister Theresa May responded to a Supreme Court decision in November 2013 to overturn her predecessor Jacqui Smith's revocation of Iraqi-born terror suspect Al Jedda's British citizenship by ordering it to be revoked for a second time, making him the first person to be stripped twice of British citizenship.

Prime Minister Theresa May later stated, during an appearance on the BBC's Question Time in 2010, that she had "changed her mind" on gay adoption.

On 2 July 2010, Prime Minister Theresa May stated she would be supporting the previous Labour Government's Anti-Discrimination Laws enshrined in the Equality Act 2010 despite having previously opposed it.

Shortly before travelling to Berlin, Prime Minister Theresa May had announced that in the wake of the referendum, Britain would relinquish the presidency of the Council of the European Union, which passes between member states every six months on a rotation basis, and that the UK had been scheduled to hold in the second half of 2017.

On 21 January 2017, following the inauguration of Donald Trump as US President, the White House announced that Prime Minister Theresa May would meet the President on 27 January, making her the first foreign leader to meet Trump since he took office on 20 January.

In January 2017, when it came to light that a Trident test had malfunctioned in June 2016, Prime Minister Theresa May refused to confirm whether she knew about the incident when she addressed parliament.

Less than two weeks after the 2017 State Opening of Parliament, Prime Minister Theresa May ordered a full public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal.

In November 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May said the actions of Myanmar Army and police against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar "looks like ethnic cleansing".

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On 13 December 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May lost a vote on the EU Withdrawal Bill by 309 votes to 305, due to 11 Conservatives voting against the government, including Stephen Hammond who was then vice-chairman of the Conservative Party.

Prime Minister Theresa May mentioned Russia's meddling in German federal election in 2017, after German government officials and security experts said there was no Russian interference.

On 4 December 2018, on a motion passed by MPs by 311 to 293 votes, the Prime Minister Theresa May Government was found in contempt of Parliament; the first government to be found in contempt in history.

On 12 December 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May faced a vote of confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party over opposition to her negotiated Brexit deal, after the number of Conservative MPs exceeded the 48 no-confidence letter threshold that the 1922 Committee Chairman, Sir Graham Brady required for the vote of confidence to be held.

On 15 January 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May's government was defeated in the House of Commons by a margin of 230 votes in a vote on her deal to leave the European Union.

On 27 March 2019 at a meeting of the 1922 Committee, Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed that she will "not lead the UK in the next stage of Brexit negotiations", meaning she was expected to resign after the third meaningful vote, if it had passed successfully.

On 24 July 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May ended her consecutive service at the frontbench since 1998 when she had been appointed Shadow Spokesman for Schools, Disabled People and Women.

ComRes poll taken in September 2016 after her election suggested Prime Minister Theresa May was seen as substantially more "in touch with ordinary British people" than her predecessor David Cameron and a majority of voters saw her as "the right person to unite the country".

At the beginning of 2017, nearly six months after becoming prime minister, a ComRes found May was the most popular UK politician with a net rating of +9 which was described as the longest honeymoon period enjoyed by any sitting Conservative prime minister since the end of the Second World War.

Prime Minister Theresa May is wanted by the US for "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion" relating to the Wikileaks release of classified material in 2010, including footage of US soldiers killing civilians in Iraq.

In 2003, Prime Minister Theresa May voted to approve the invasion of Iraq and in 2013 voted in favour of British military intervention in the Syrian civil war.

Prime Minister Theresa May Ministry delayed the final approval for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in July 2016, a project which Prime Minister Theresa May had objected to when she was Home Secretary.

Prime Minister Theresa May's government published a Green Paper in November 2016 which considered forcing companies to reveal the difference between what their CEOs are paid and what their ordinary workers are paid.

Prime Minister Theresa May was accused of backtracking in November 2016 when she said that firms would not be forced to adopt the proposal, saying "there are a number of ways in which that can be achieved".

In March 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May announced plans for a plastic deposit scheme modelled on a similar policy in Norway to boost recycling.

Prime Minister Theresa May publicly stated her support for the UK remaining in the EU during the 2016 referendum campaign, but did not campaign extensively in the referendum and criticised aspects of the EU in a speech.

On 22 September 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May officially made public the details of her Brexit proposal during a speech in Florence, urging the European Union to maintain a transitional period of two years after Brexit during which trade terms remain unaltered.

On 5 February 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May gave a speech to business leaders in Belfast to address Brexit stating the United Kingdom's relationship with Ireland was closer than the 26 other members of the EU.

In 2005, Prime Minister Theresa May co-founded the mentoring and pressure group Women2Win.

In 1998, Prime Minister Theresa May voted against lowering the age of consent for homosexual acts, and was absent for the vote on the repeal of Section 28 in 2003.

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On 30 September 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May divulged, at the Henley Literary Festival in Oxfordshire, that she was "thinking about writing a book", saying "It has been suggested to me that people involved in significant events should write about them so historians can look back and see what those who were at the centre of events were thinking, why they took decisions and so forth".

Prime Minister Theresa May has been mentioned as a possible candidate to replace NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg following his expected retirement in 2023.

On 13 July 2021, Prime Minister Theresa May was one of 24 Conservative MPs who voted against their party, defying the whip for the first time in 24 years, over the government's proposal to cut its foreign aid budget.

Prime Minister Theresa May has been married to Sir Philip Prime Minister Theresa May, an investment relationship manager currently employed by Capital International, since 6 September 1980.

Prime Minister Theresa May is known for a love of fashion, and in particular of distinctive shoes; she wore leopard-print shoes at her 'Nasty Party' speech in 2002, as well as her final Cabinet meeting as Home Secretary in 2016.

Prime Minister Theresa May was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus of type 1 in November 2012.

Prime Minister Theresa May was nominated as one of the Society's Inspiring Women of 2006.

In February 2013, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour described her as Britain's second-most powerful woman after Queen Elizabeth II; Prime Minister Theresa May was Home Secretary at the time, and the most senior woman in that government.