‘I don’t think I’m robotic,’ British Prime Minister Theresa May tells BBC listeners during cricket broadcast
The interview also covered politics, with May accepting she must bear some blame for the election result in June
British Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted she is not robotic in an interview with the BBC’s Test Match Special programme – and attempted to prove it by bringing along a box of her home-made brownies for the presenters.
The prime minister, a lifelong cricket fan, was the lunchtime guest on the BBC radio show, where she was questioned on everything from Hurricane Irma to cookery and politics.
Asked by the host, Jonathan Agnew, whether she felt she had come across as herself in June’s election, May said she did not enjoy the popular characterisation of her as impersonal and repetitive.
I get frustrated. People use the term ‘robotic’ about me. I don’t think I’m in the least robotic
“I get frustrated,” she said. “People use the term ‘robotic’ about me. I don’t think I’m in the least robotic.”
Guests traditionally bring cakes to Test Match Special, and after an initial chat about Irma – which May called “absolutely devastating” – the prime minister said she had baked chocolate brownies herself at Downing Street.
Asked which recipe she used, May said: “As this is on the BBC I don’t know if I can reveal which cook I used” before saying it was from Nigel Slater.
She added: “I have made brownies for TMS before, once when Geoffrey Boycott was invited. I brought some brownies up. I handed them to Geoffrey but I don’t know whether they ever made it into the TMS box.”
She added: “All I will say is that Geoffrey Boycott’s still got my Tupperware.”