DOCUMENTARY ON THERESA MAY IN DOWNING STREET ‘REVELATORY’
Theresa May’s time in Downing Street will be explored in a new “revelatory” documentary, ITV has announced, five years on from her emotional resignation outside No 10.
Britain’s second female prime minister will be the subject of Theresa May: Accidental PM, a programme delving into her three years in power.
ITV promises “unique access” to Mrs May, with the documentary featuring clips of her at home with husband Philip and contributions from Amber Rudd, her home secretary, and her former advisor Lord Barwell.
Suella Braverman, former home secretary, who served as a Brexit minister under Mrs May, will also appear in the programme.
The documentary, which will include rarely seen archive footage, will track Mrs May’s rise to power in 2016, the 2017 snap election leading to a hung Parliament, and her government’s travails in delivering Brexit.
It will also cover the Grenfell Tower fire, the Windrush scandal and her relationship with former US president Donald Trump, as well as her time as a backbencher since leaving office in 2019.
Mrs May announced she was standing down as MP for Maidenhead, 27 years after first arriving at Westminster.
ITV said that the programme will also examine the former prime minister’s “treatment by some from within her own Cabinet and many more from her own backbenches”.
The divisions among the Conservative Party on how to deliver Brexit and Mrs May’s ultimate failure to get her deal through Parliament led to her resignation.
Neil Grant, executive producer of the documentary, said: “Theresa May has never given access like this before. Full, frank and revelatory, this is a rare insight into power and politics at a time of turmoil, turbulence and betrayal.”
Mrs May released her first book, The Abuse of Power, last year about her time as home secretary and then prime minister, published to mixed reviews.
The documentary, produced by The Slate Works, will air in June.
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