10 Things You Didn’t Know About UK Prime Minister Theresa May

Get to know the new UK Prime minister, Theresa May. She is the Britain’s second female prime minister. The contest for Britain’s next PM was set to last until September. However, energy minister Andrea Leadsom unexpectedly quit on Monday paving the way for May to become the UK’s 76th prime minister.Here are ten (10) things you didn’t know about UK Prime Minister Theresa May

1. Theresa was born in 1956 in Eastbourne. Her father, a vicar, Rev Hubert Brasier was killed in a car crash in 1981 followed by  her wheelchair-bound mother Zaidee who passed away few months later after battling multiple sclerosis.

2. May studied geography at Oxford University where she met her husband Philip.

3. Her first job was at the Bank of England.

4. She entered parliament in 1997 as the opposition’s member for Maidenhead. She held roles including the shadow portfolios for education, employment, work and pensions and House of Commons leader.

5. She briefly served as the Conservatives’ first female chairman.

6. May became home secretary in 2010. She is the fourth woman to occupy one of the four great offices of state.

7. For the Prime Minister, May children are an ”ultra-sensitive subject”.

8. May wanted to be Britain’s first prime minister and was miffed that Margaret Thatcher beat her to it.

9. May did not get along with his colleagues, according to former Lib Dem minister David Laws.

He said recently: ”She would frequently clash with George Osborne over immigration. She rarely got on anything but badly with Michael Gove. She and Cameron seemed to view each other with mutual suspicion.”

10. She’s a tough woman.