'My faith helped' Theresa May talks of sadness over not having children
THERESA May spoke movingly tonight of her sorrow at not being able to have children and how her Christian faith helped her cope.
Theresa May talks of her sorrow at not being able to have children
The Prime Minister sounded less guarded on the subject than previously as she told LBC radio: "It's been very sad. It just turned out not to be possible for us.
"Of course, we are not the only couple that finds ourselves in that situation and when you do I suppose you just get on with life. We've got nephews and nieces."
She also spoke of the shock when at 25 and an only child with no siblings for support, she lost her vicar father in a car crash and then her mother from illness.
It's been very sad. It just turned out not to be possible for us
"Suddenly there I was without the two people who had brought me up and had meant so much to me throughout my life. It did have an impact," she said.
Her husband Philip had been her "rock" - and her faith had supported her with her parents' deaths and also with not having children.
In other insights, the keen cook said that if Donald Trump came to dinner she might serve him slow-roasted shoulder of lamb.
May’s husband Philip had been her ‘rock’ and her faith had supported her with her parents' deaths
Answering callers' questions, she declined to promise the Tories would not raise taxes for anyone if they win the June 8 election but said there were "no plans" to do so and her "instinct" was to cut tax for "working families".
Tomorrow it is expected that Mrs May will accuse Jeremy Corbyn of "deserting proud and patriotic working class people" as she launches an audacious election campaign raid deep into traditional Labour territory.
In north-east England she will say she "respects" the loyalty of generations to Labour: "But across the country today, traditional Labour supporters are increasingly looking at what Jeremy Corbyn believes in and are appalled.
"We have learned from the shambolic leak of his manifesto that at the heart of his plan is a desire to go back to the disastrous Socialist policies of the 1970s."
Labour's national campaign chair Ian Lavery, standing for reelection in Wansbeck, Northumberland, said ahead of the PM’s speech: "The wonderful people of the north east of England won't be fooled by this farcical attempt by Theresa May to mask the damage her Tories have done to the lives of working people across the country.”