Theresa Mary May, Lady May née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician. She served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. May served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 and has been Member of Parliament for Maidenhead in Berkshire since 1997.
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Theresa Mary May, Lady May née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician. She served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. May served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 and has been Member of Parliament for Maidenhead in Berkshire since 1997. She is the first and to date, the only woman to hold two of the Great Offices of State. She identifies herself as a one-nation conservative. May grew up in Oxfordshire and attended St Hugh’s College, Oxford. After graduating in 1977, she worked at the Bank of England and the Association for Payment Clearing Services. She also served as a councillor for Durnsford in Merton. After two unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons, she was elected as the MP for Maiden head in 1997. From 1999 to 2010, May held several roles in shadow cabinets. She was also chairwoman of the Tory Party from 2002 to 2003. Following the formation of the coalition government after the 2010 general election, May was appointed Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities, but gave up the latter role in 2012. She became the longest-serving Home Secretary in over 60 years. As Prime Minister, she carried out the Brexit negotiations with the European Union, adhering to the Chequers Agreement, which resulted in the Brexit withdrawal agreement. She oversaw a £20 billion increase in funding to the National Health Service through the NHS Long Term Plan.
She 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. After versions of her draft withdrawal agreement were rejected by Parliament three times, she resigned and was succeeded by Boris Johnson, her former Foreign Secretary. May survived a vote of no confidence from Conservative MPs in December 2018 and a vote tabled by Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn in January 2019. Her father was a Church of England clergyman who was chaplain of an Eastbourne hospital. He later became vicar of Enstone with Heythrop and finally of St Mary’s at Wheatley, to the east of Oxford. May’s father died in 1981, from injuries sustained in a car accident, and her mother of multiple sclerosis the following year. During her time at school, she won a place at the former Holton Park Girls’ Grammar School in Wheatley. As a pupil, she became the new Wheatley Park Comprehensive School. She read geography at the University of Oxford, and graduated with a second class BA in 1977. According to a friend, according to those who knew her well, she did not have political ambitions at the time. She worked at a bakery on Saturdays to earn money and was a fashion-conscious young woman who from an early age spoke of her ambition to be the first woman to be prime minister. May is the only child of Zaidee Mary and Hubert Brasier.
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