- She has been British Conservative MP for Maidenhead (1 May 1997 - present) and was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (13 July 2016 - 24 July 2019). She became the 76th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the second female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Margaret Thatcher.
- She introduced the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (nicknamed the Snooper's Charter), the most sweeping surveillance laws seen in any democracy in the Western world.
- Her mantra "Brexit means Brexit" is an example of a kind of logical fallacy called tautology.
- She is the first foreign leader to meet US President Donald Trump since his inauguration on January 20 2017 (January 27 2017).
- She called for an early general election to be held June 8 to seek a strong mandate as she negotiated Britain's exit from the European Union. [April 2017].
- She asked the House of Commons on to back her call for an election, just two years after the last vote and three years before the next scheduled date in May 2020. [April 2017].
- Merited a place in TIME magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with an homage penned by New Zealand's Prime Minister Bill English. (May 2017)
- She read geography at the University of Oxford, where she met her husband.
- John Cleese called her "Margaret Thatcher with a sense of humour".
- She is known for her love of fashion and in particular distinctive shoes.
- Although she has based her leadership style to a large extent on the strong and decisive style of former Tory leader and prime minister Margaret Thatcher, she famously dubbed her own party "the Nasty Party" for its regressive stance during the Thatcher years on issues such as homosexual equality. Despite coming from a strongly Christian background, she voted in favour of same-sex marriage (which was against the Church of England's official position) and during an interview by Andrew Marr in 2017, she said she did not believe in Old Testament teaching that gay sex is a sin.
- She is the first foreign leader to visit Iraq following the recapture of the city of Mosul from ISIS terrorists by Coalition forces and the first British Prime Minister since Gordon Brown visited Iraq in 2008.
- She is the first British Prime Minister since John Major in 1995 to visit the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show (May 21, 2018).
- She is ranked 14th in Forbes' 2018 75 Most Powerful People List.
- She is the first sitting British Prime Minister to visit Bulgaria and Macedonia since Tony Blair in 1999 (May 17, 2018).
- Lampooned by Frankie Boyle.
- She is the first sitting British Prime Minister to visit Nigeria and Kenya since Margaret Thatcher visited both countries in January 1988 (August 30, 2018).
- She is the first sitting British Prime Minister to visit Argentina's capital city Buenos Aires. (November 30, 2018).
- The political journalist Michael Cockerell said her legacy as Prime Minister was to leave the country as divided as at any time since Cromwell. He described her as "a dutiful woman who'd fallen among fundamentalists".
- She is the only Prime Minister during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, to have been married, but not have any children of her own.
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