Prime Minister cites Boycott as cricket favourite
THE PRIME Minister has named Geoffrey Boycott as her favourite cricketer because of “the fact that he stuck in there and just got on with the job”.
Keen cricket fan Mrs May took home-made chocolate brownies for the Test Match Special team, saying she baked them to a Nigel Slater recipe. And she said that the last time she paid a visit to the programme, she gave the brownies to Geoffrey Boycott and did not know whether he shared them with his fellow presenters, joking: “Geoffrey Boycott has still got my Tupperware.”
She revealed she had never played cricket seriously herself, only taking part in French cricket sessions in the garden as a girl.
THERESA MAY presented the Test Match Special team with homemade brownies as she took part in a British cultural institution.
The Prime Minister was the lunchtime guest in the BBC commentary box as England took on the West Indies at Lords.
Mrs May said the brownies were her second attempt at a sweet gift for the TMS team, her first having been intercepted by Yorkshire cricketing legend Geoffrey Boycott.
“Geoffrey Boycott has still got my Tupperware,” she joked.
Asked whether she felt personally hurt by the election result, Mrs May told Test Match
Special: “It is difficult to go into an election thinking, working, hoping for a particular result and then getting a different result.
“As the leader of the party, of course you have to take it to a degree personally and you have to accept that responsibility.
“Any election campaign, particularly one that has gone like that, you have to look back and say ‘What should we have done? What did we do that we shouldn’t have done? What did we not do?’
“This was a campaign like no other I’ve ever had, because I’ve always enjoyed getting out there and knocking on doors and meeting people in the streets and of course as party leader and Prime Minister you tend to have a different sort of campaign.
“It’s more meeting groups of people and making a number of speeches.
“In any election campaign, a plan is made of what that campaign is going to be like.
“I get frustrated (that) people used the term ‘robotic’ about me during that campaign.
“I don’t think I’m in the least robotic; what I really enjoy is getting out there, talking to people, hearing from them, understanding what the issues are for them.”
Mrs May said she was still driven by her agenda of helping people who are “just about managing” and improving areas like mental health. “I’m not a quitter,” she said. “There’s a job to be done.”