Ex-PM Theresa May claims she is ‘woke and proud’ and has always thought immigration is ‘good for the country’ despite having overseen the ‘hostile environment’ towards illegal arrivals while Home Secretary

Theresa Might claimed she is ‘woke and proud’ immediately and all the time believed immigration is ‘good for the nation’ – regardless of as soon as overseeing a marketing campaign designed to power folks to go away Britain.

The previous Tory prime minister lashed out on the ‘polarised’ debate round gender points and referred to as for ‘calm reflection and consideration’.

Mrs Might, who was pressured to stop after failing to agree a workable Brexit deal, made the remarks in an interview to advertise her new e book, The Abuse of Energy. 

Requested if she thought-about herself ‘fortunately a woke girl’, she replied: ‘Within the phrases of that definition of anyone who recognises that discrimination takes place. Sadly, that time period has come for use…as a part of this absolutism and polarisation of politics.’

Pushed additional on Occasions Radio by host Ruth Davidson, she stated: ‘I’m, yeah! It’s kind of like being requested within the previous days, was I a feminist? Properly, I wore a T-shirt which stated ”That is what a feminist appears like…”’

Requested about immigration, she added: ‘I’ve all the time stated that immigration has been good for the nation. I believe the priority that individuals have is all the time round numbers and sometimes, really, the individuals who really feel most about this problem are individuals who see least migration in their very own communities.’

Mrs Might got here in for criticism throughout her six years as Dwelling Secretary underneath David Cameron for overseeing a ‘hostile setting’ marketing campaign towards unlawful immigrants.

It included sending vans round London boroughs telling folks to ‘go house or face arrest’. 

She was additionally prime minister when the Windrush Scandal broke, wherein Britons have been deported to the Commonwealth international locations of their dad and mom’ start.

Nevertheless, she has various her place in recent times. She has hit out at Dwelling Secretary Suella Braverman for calling the Channel boats disaster an ‘invasion on our south coast’, and opposed a brand new legislation designed to make it tougher for arrivals to assert they’re victims of human trafficking.

She additionally first hit the headlines in 2002 when she warned that the Tories wanted to lose their ‘Nasty Celebration’ picture.

Mrs Might, the daughter of a priest who had a straight-laced status whereas in energy, additionally instructed the radio station she had been blocked from attending a Tory ‘stripper and vicars’ occasion as a younger activist.

‘I wasn’t a really rebellious little one because the little one of the vicarage… I can let you know the story that after I expressed an curiosity, at really fairly a younger age, in becoming a member of the Younger Conservatives domestically, they got here to say would I wish to go to their first occasion and it was a vicars and tarts occasion and I wasn’t allowed to go,’ she stated.

She additionally revealed her husband, Sir Philip Might, went all the way down to working a four-day week when she was in No10, so he may assist out extra round the home.