Her ideology is late-era Thatcherism: low tax, work not welfare, slash red tape, shrink the public sector, reduce workers’ rights.
She wears bold block dresses: telephone box red, electric blue, vicious mustard. They are not so much colours as statements of intent: look at me, the next Mrs T. The Iron Lady 2.0.
To relax, she watches trash TV and has compared herself to Arya Stark, the teenage assassin in Game of Thrones. She likes to dance to Taylor Swift and Little Mix. She is good fun, according to former colleagues. “She is incredibly warm, kind and funny,” says one former adviser.