Five things we learnt from Theresa May’s Desert Island Discs appearance

This week belongs to Theresa May. Although the longest serving Home Secretary in fifty years continues to dodge leadership questions, her movements over the next few days will make it harder to deny that she isn’t building up her public profile.

Today, she made a genial appearance on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, something she admitted was a ‘huge opportunity’. She also adorns the cover of the latest Spectator Life, out this week, where Harry Cole has compiled an extensive profile of May’s tribal approach to surviving in Westminster. And on Thursday, she will be the host of the Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards.

May is clearly on manoeuvres, and her Desert Island Discs appearance revealed some interesting tidbits about her character:

1.  She hasn’t ruled out standing for leader

Presenter Kirsty Young asked May the obligatory question of whether she has aspirations to lead the Conservatives. Echoing the recent words of Michael Gove (another leadership contender), May remained steadfastly loyal to the PM:

‘My view is very simple. David Cameron is a first-class leader of the party and a first-class Prime Minister and I hope he is going to be doing that job for a very long time.