Theresa May: loyal constituency MP who lost Tory support over Brexit
by Kiran Stacey Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6K6FK)
No 10 years were plagued by in-fighting as she tried to deliver a Brexit that would placate hard-right and centrist factions
After grand dinners at Chequers, the UK prime ministers' countryside retreat, Theresa May often used to ask her driver to take her 45 minutes across the Buckinghamshire countryside to her home in Maidenhead, rather than staying overnight.
Even as prime minister, May maintained a devotion to her constituency that sometimes baffled aides but encapsulated the contradictions at the heart of one of Britain's most successful but hard-to-define politicians.
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