The former Prime Minister, Theresa May, talks to Nick Robinson on Political Thinking
, Theresa May gives us a window into public life and what it was like to try and weather the storms that wreaked havoc with her time in office.in which the former Prime Minister charts how her religious upbringing and events including the Hillsborough disaster, Grenfell and Brexit have shaped her awareness of abuse of power.1. Being the vicar’s daughter was practice for being an MP
Her status as the vicar’s daughter made her quite self-conscious about how she expressed herself in public because she knew that it reflected upon her family. Her cautious nature was, she says, a useful attribute for her roles as Home Secretary and Prime Minister. However, she recognises that being more outspoken might have got her a better press.
“He brought home to me that the Home Office was requiring everybody to have four pieces of documentation for every year they lived in the UK. Four. I just thought, ‘Oh’.”She does however feel that both Remainers and Leavers made her life difficult. In the case of the former, she accuses the Speaker at the time, John Bercow, of effectively trying to overthrow democracy. “I think the various things that the Speaker did actually helped the other side of the argument.
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