Theresa May

Baroness May       (politician, deep state functionary)
Facing defeat in the House of Commons
Born	Theresa Mary Brasier 1 January 1956 Eastbourne, England
Alma mater	St Hugh's College (Oxford)
Religion	Anglicanism
Spouse	Philip May
Interest of	Johnny Vedmore
Party	Conservative Party
UK deep state functionary who was UK PM 2016-2019  Member of the House of Lords  In office 12 September 2024 - Present  UK/Prime Minister  In office 13 July 2016 - 24 July 2019 Preceded by David Cameron Succeeded by Boris Johnson  Chairperson-in-office of the Commonwealth of Nations In office 19 April 2018 - 24 July 2019 Succeeded by Boris Johnson  Leader of the Conservative Party  In office 11 July 2016 - 7 June 2019 Deputy Damian Green Preceded by David Cameron  Home Secretary  In office 12 May 2010 - 13 July 2016 Preceded by Alan Johnson Succeeded by Amber Rudd  Minister for Women and Equalities  In office 11 May 2010 - 4 September 2012  Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions In office 19 January 2009 - 11 May 2010 Preceded by Chris Grayling Succeeded by Yvette Cooper  Shadow Minister for Women and Equality In office 2 July 2007 - 11 May 2010 Succeeded by Yvette Cooper  Shadow Minister for Women and Equality In office 15 June 1999 - 18 September 2001  Shadow Leader of the House of Commons  In office 6 December 2005 - 19 January 2009 Preceded by Chris Grayling Succeeded by Alan Duncan  Shadow Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport  In office 6 May 2005 - 8 December 2005 Preceded by John Whittingdale  Shadow Secretary of State for the Family  In office 15 June 2004 - 8 December 2005  Shadow Secretary of State for Environment and Transport  In office 6 November 2003 - 14 June 2004  Chairman of the Conservative Party  In office 23 July 2002 - 6 November 2003 Preceded by David Davis Succeeded by Liam Fox  Shadow Secretary of State for Transport  In office 6 June 2002 - 23 July 2002  Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Local Government and the Regions In office 18 September 2001 - 6 June 2002 Succeeded by Eric Pickles  Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment In office 15 June 1999 - 18 September 2001 Preceded by David Willetts Succeeded by Damian Green  Member of Parliament for Maidenhead In office 1 May 1997 - 30 Mayy 2024

Theresa Mary May, Baroness May of Maidenhead, is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who succeeded David Cameron on 13 July 2016 and became the UK's second female PM, after Margaret Thatcher.

Speaking outside 10 Downing Street after being appointed by the Queen, Theresa May said it would be her mission to "build a better Britain". She promised to give the JAMs (people who were "just about managing") more control over their lives and later began appointing Cabinet members, with Philip Hammond becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer and Boris Johnson becoming the new Foreign Secretary.

She stood down as Prime Minister on 24 July 2019, following the election by Conservative Party members of her former Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, to replace her; but remained in the House of Commons as a backbencher until the UK/General election/2024.

Background

Theresa May's father, Hubert Brasier was killed in a car crash in 1981.

Career

Throughout her political career, Theresa May has shown herself a tool of the UK deep state, unquestioning in her support for the official narrative about the need to combat "terrorism".

Home Secretary

As Britain's longest serving Home Secretary, Theresa May was aggressive in her support for the deep state's universal surveillance. After Edward Snowden's revelations of illegal surveillance by the UK intelligence agencies (especially GCHQ), May did not respond by announcing that the perpetrators would be arrested. Instead, in November 2015, she announced new surveillance legislation that explicitly legalised such surveillance while mandated that ISPs keep logs, for example, the addresses of all web pages visited by their customers in the last 12 months.

UK Prime Minister

As UK Prime Minister, in 2017, following high profile acts of "terror", May remarked that “There is to be frank, far too much tolerance of extremism in our country.”

UK/2017 General Election

Full article: UK/2017 General Election

Expecting to achieve a landslide majority and strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations, on 19 April 2017 Theresa May called a snap General Election for 8 June 2017. Contrary to her expectations, however, the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority in the election, and have to rely on the support of the DUP's ten MPs to continue in government. On 12 June 2017, Theresa May told backbenchers in the 1922 Committee:

"I got us into this mess, and I'm the one who'll get us out of it."

She also signalled that she may be open to re-calibrating her approach to Brexit, telling MPs that she would listen to "all voices" in the party on the issue.

Lying to Parliament

On 28 June 2017, SKWAWKBOX cited three videos and claimed that Theresa May had lied to Parliament at PMQs when challenged by Jeremy Corbyn over the Tories’ cuts to local authority funding and the dangers they have created, particularly in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire.

"Typically, Theresa May dodged any semblance of an answer to the question of funding. Instead, she tried to answer a question that hadn’t been asked, about who was in government when cladding began to be used on tower blocks. And, again typically, she screwed even that up – and lied outright to the House.

"May claimed that the cladding of tower blocks began under Tony Blair’s New Labour government. She misled the House by about twenty years – as this 1984 video shows, it in fact began under Margaret Thatcher during another period of Tory cuts to local government funding.

"Before the Tories began the degradation of Parliament by allowing various ministers to remain in position even after lies and other offences, lying to the House of Commons used to be an automatic resignation offence.

"Theresa May has no honour. If she did, she wouldn’t have risked peace in Northern Ireland by getting into bed with the hard-right, paramilitary-linked DUP to bail her out after her abject general election failure. So she won’t resign as she should.

"But if there are any MPs among her back-benchers – or even (though unlikely) her front-bench team – that still have a sense of honour, they ought to be giving serious thought to voting with the Labour Party on its public service pay amendment this evening.

"If May won’t do the decent thing herself, others in her party need to do it for her – and bring down a dishonest government led by a lying PM."

"Brexit means Brexit"

Full article: Brexit

During her brief and successful 2016 Conservative Party leadership campaign, May infamously declared

“Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it.”
Theresa May (July 2016) 

Connections

• CChange - Former Board member

 

A Quote by Theresa May

Page	Quote	Date
"Non-violent extremism"	“non-violent extremism goes unchallenged, the values that bind our society together fragment.”	2015

 

Appointments by Theresa May

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Stephen Barclay	Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	16 November 2018	31 January 2020
Stephen Barclay	Minister/State for Health	9 January 2018	16 November 2018
Stephen Barclay	Economic Secretary to the Treasury	14 June 2017	9 January 2018
Stephen Barclay	City Minister	14 June 2017	9 January 2018
Stephen Barclay	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	17 July 2016	14 June 2017
Michael Fallon	UK/Defence Secretary	15 July 2014	1 November 2017
Adrian Fulford	Investigatory Powers Commissioner	3 March 2017
Michael Gove	UK/Minister/Environment	11 June 2017	24 July 2019
Matt Hancock	UK/Culture Secretary	8 January 2018	9 July 2018
Matt Hancock	UK/Minister of State for Digital and Culture	15 July 2015	8 January 2018
Damian Hinds	UK/Minister/Employment	17 July 2016	8 January 2018
Damian Hinds	UK/Secretary of State for Education	8 January 2018	24 July 2019
Nick Hurd	Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry	16 July 2016	12 June 2017
Nick Hurd	Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Services	12 June 2017	25 July 2019
Nick Hurd	Minister of State for London	14 November 2018	16 December 2019
Boris Johnson	UK/Foreign Secretary	13 July 2016	9 July 2018
David Jones	Minister of State for Exiting the European Union	17 July 2016	12 June 2017
Kwasi Kwarteng	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	16 November 2018	24 July 2019
Lizzie Loudon	Downing Street Press Secretary	2016	2017
Esther McVey	Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	8 January 2018	15 November 2018	Resigned over Brexit
Penny Mordaunt	UK/Minister/Development	9 November 2017	1 May 2019
Penny Mordaunt	UK/Defence Secretary	1 May 2019	24 July 2019
Penny Mordaunt	Minister for Women and Equalities	30 April 2018	24 July 2019
Neil O'Brien	Special Adviser	November 2012	2017
Priti Patel	UK/Secretary of State for International Development	14 July 2016	8 November 2017
Mark Sedwill	Cabinet Secretary	24 October 2018	9 September 2020
Mark Sedwill	UK/National Security Adviser	April 2017	September 2020
Liz Truss	Secretary of State for Justice	14 July 2016	11 June 2017
Liz Truss	Chief Secretary to the Treasury	11 June 2017	24 July 2019
Liz Truss	Lord Chancellor	14 July 2016	11 June 2017
Gavin Williamson	House of Commons/Chief Whip	14 July 2016	2 November 2017
Gavin Williamson	UK/Defence Secretary	2 November 2017	1 May 2019
Jeremy Wright	UK/Culture Secretary	9 July 2018	24 July 2019
Nadhim Zahawi	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families	9 January 2018	25 July 2019

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Date
Document:Mrs. May & MI5 In Disarray	“Under the stiff carapace is a hollowness, a lack of empathy, language or political imagination.”	5 June 2017

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2018	23 January 2018	26 January 2018	Switzerland	~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World"

 

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