It’s exactly one year to the day since Theresa May became Prime Minister. To mark the occasion, she has given a lengthy interview to Radio 5Live’s Emma Barnett. Unfortunately for May, it wasn’t the interview she would have envisaged giving a year ago when she entered No 10. Rather than talk of the achievements so far of her time in office, she had to defend her decision to call the disastrous snap election and discuss what mistakes she had made.
May insisted that she was right to call the snap election and for the first time gave a real insight into her reaction on that night. She said she got her husband Philip to watch the exit poll as she is superstitious about it. When he came in and told her, she was surprised. He gave her a hug, she shed a tear and then after a minute she called CCHQ to find out what was going on:
TM: I felt devastated, really.
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