Theresa May says her faith helped her with the devastating pain of being unable to have children with husband Philip
THERESA MAY has opened her heart up about the heartache of being unable to have children - and the pain of losing her parents so young.
In an interview and phone-in session with LBC this evening, the Prime Minister told listeners that the experiences were "very sad" and her faith helped her though the tough times.
Mrs May was immediately dropped into personal questions by LBC host Nick Ferrari - who quizzed her on what kind of PM she would have been if she had been able to have kids.
She said it was impossible for her to answer that, but that it was a "very sad" thing to have happened to her.
The PM said in a matter-of-fact fashion: "You just get on with life."
Theresa May's interview with LBC
Who is the most important Philip in Downing Street? (Her husband, Philip May, or the Chancellor, Philip Hammond?)
"The man who takes out the bins!"
Bloody difficult, delusional, or a tough lady - which best describes you?
"It's not for me to say, it's for other people to say."
Will you be putting taxes up?
"We will go into government with no plans to increase tax."
What is your signature dish?
"Slow-roast lamb."
And she said that her parents' early deaths when she was in her 20s "had quite an impact" on her - but that her faith guided her through.
"I think my faith helped, she said. "In being a support for me."
Husband Philip was her rock throughout it all, she said.
"I was an only child, I didn't have any brothers or sisters I could share with," she added.
"Suddenly I was without the two people who had brought me up... it did have quite an impact."
On a lighter note, the PM also revealed that her signature dish is a slow-roast shoulder of lamb - and she would whip it up for President Trump if she ever needed to host him personally.
It needs to be "really slow so it just falls off the bone," she added.
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And she confirmed to listeners this evening that the most important Philip on Downing Street is, of course, her husband.
Earlier this week the Prime Minister and her husband Philip appeared side by side on The One Show - where she joked that she was a "bloody difficult" woman at home as well as at work.
Joking that there was “give and take in every marriage”, he added: “I get to decide when I take the bins out, not if I take the bins out.”
His wife, 60, jumped in to say: “There’s boy jobs and girl jobs”.
Mr May agreed: “I do the traditional boy jobs, by and large.”
The PM's other half opened up on prime-time TV to reveal that it was "love at first sight" when the couple first met at university.
During the cosy chat on BBC1’s The One Show with Alex James and Matt Baker, below, Mr May disclosed he got only “a little section” of the wardrobe in No10 because of his wife’s love of clothes and shoes.
