PM likes cooking and walking

An extensive library of more than 150 cookbooks and episodes of crime show NCIS help Theresa May unwind, she has revealed.

The prime minister also referred to her well-documented love of walking when asked how she copes with the stresses of life in Number 10.

Answering questions from workers at an engineering firm in Newcastle, she said cooking allowed her to enjoy the benefits of both making food and eating it.

She was asked how she coped with what was probably “the world’s most stressful job at the moment”.

She told workers: “I like walking, my husband and I enjoy going walking when we can, taking holidays walking.

“I enjoy cooking, which has a benefit because you get to eat it as well as make it – I own over 150 cookbooks so I spend quite a lot of time looking at cookbooks.”

The former home secretary said she enjoyed the American crime drama series NCIS, which focuses on investigating wrongdoing in the US navy and marines.

“Does anyone here know the American series NCIS? I quite like watching NCIS when I can,” she said.

It is understood that her disastrous decision to call a snap general election in 2017 was conceived while hiking in Wales.