JULY 2016

AFTER the referendum, and in the run-up to the Conservative leadership campaign, Maria receives a tweet saying: ‘Well I hope you die of cancer.’ Maria’s mother died of breast cancer when she was a teenager and she was a Macmillan nurse prior to becoming an MP. She says: ‘When you read something like that you think: “That’s really low.” When you’ve looked after people with cancer . . .’