Nuggets on May
Some trivia about Theresa May
— At 59, she is the oldest new prime minister since Jim Callaghan, 64, in 1976.
— She has the shortest surname of any prime minister since Andrew Bonar Law, who held the post for 211 days in 1923.
— She is the first childless PM since Edward Heath
— She is one of three recent prime ministers whose fathers were preachers: Gordon Brown is the son of a Church of Scotland minister and Lady Thatcher’s father was a Methodist preacher as well as shopkeeper.
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