May gets in a tangle over how she likes to let her hair down
A PRIME minister with a reputation for indecisiveness should be advised to give quick answers to simple questions – Gordon Brown, memorably, took 24 hours to name his favourite biscuit.
However, when Theresa May was asked yesterday how she chose to let her hair down, she replied that there wasn’t one single way of doing it.
Mrs May was asked in an interview marking International Women’s Day how she liked to “get away from it all”.
The Prime Minister told ITV News: “What a question! And I haven’t thought about it, because my International Women’s Day is heavily focused on what we’re doing on domestic abuse. I’m not going to have the time to have the girls round and have an evening together, I’m afraid.”
Pushed on how she would choose to relax in a “dream moment”, she said: “Well, I don’t think that when you let your hair down there’s only one way of doing it. I think it depends on the group that you’ve got, it depends on the time.”
Mrs May’s response is likely to prompt memories of the 2017 election campaign when she struggled to say what the naughtiest thing she did as a child was. “I have to confess,” she said at the time, “when me and my friend sort of used to run through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren’t too pleased.”