Archive: Theresa May

The cost of a child: Theresa May must reverse cuts to family benefits

Without a rethinking of these cuts, low-income families will continue to struggle

Appointment of Theresa May "a positive day in British public life"

Huw Evans, Director General of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), has congratulated Theresa May on becoming Prime Minister.
NARPO "surprised" by Theresa May's choice of candidate for HMCIC

The National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) has been watching with interest the recent developments in policing and was surprised not only at the Home Secretary’s choice of candidate for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMCIC) but also at the comment that he was head and shoulders above any other candidate.
Unite: G4S civilian investigators should send shock waves across the country

Unite the union, which represents police staff has demanded that home secretary, Theresa May steps in to halt police privatisation as the disgraced security company G4S advertises for civilian investigators to work for Warwickshire police.
BHA: Scrapping the Human Rights Act would be 'an international embarrassment' for the UK

Scrapping the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) would be an international embarrassment for the UK, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has said as it urged parliamentarians from across the political spectrum to defend the law.

Theresa May's grammar school plan is post-truth politics in action

Prime minister pushes ahead with new grammars despite all the evidence suggesting they increase inequality
Hinkley Point is just another vanity project - Theresa May should ditch it

Governments focus too much on big and unnecessary projects

In-work poverty is the real crisis facing Theresa May

Families are still struggling to meet basic needs
May's first PMQs and she wipes the floor with Corbyn

May destroyed Corbyn and did so with an eery likeness to Thatcher

Leadsom steps down: Britain has dodged a bullet

Leadsom would have been a disaster for Britain
Pick of the Week: Last two standing

Our five most-read items of the week

The science of crisis: Why Brexit Britain will turn to Theresa May

Electorates look for strong leaders during crises and they prefer these leaders to be women
Andrea Leadsom called for minimum wage and maternity pay to be scrapped for small business

Candidate to be UK's next prime minister supported removal of workers' rights

Theresa May: Something wicked this way comes

May's policies are not just wrong. They're dangerous
Boris Johnson abandons his leadership bid before it's even launched

Former mayor suffers series fatal blows to his leadership hopes

The powers Theresa May is asking for would make Putin blush

The Home Office plans to create a database of personal information to spy on British citizens
The immigration bill risks sowing division in all walks of British life

The controversial bill is back in the Commons today with a number of amendments from the Lords

Signs of growing panic as damning Theresa May judgement published

Legal challenge could bring the secrecy surrounding the reporting committee's handling of the student deportations case into the daylight
Secretive legal committee buries ruling against Theresa May

Lawyers have been left stunned by the decision not to report the student deportations case