Theresa May's tenure as Home Secretary 12 May 2010 – 13 July 2016 | |
Party | Conservative |
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Election | 2010, 2015 |
Nominated by | David Cameron |
Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
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Home Secretary
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Theresa May served as home secretary from 2010 until 2016. As a member of David Cameron's first government May was appointed as home secretary on 12 May 2010, shortly after Cameron became prime minister, and continued in the post as part of the Cameron's second government following the 2015 general election. She held the post until she succeeded Cameron as prime minister on 13 July 2016. May was the second woman to be appointed as home secretary after Jacqui Smith, and the fourth woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State.
The longest-serving home secretary since James Chuter Ede over 60 years previously, May pursued reform of the police, took a harder line on drug policy and introduced restrictions on immigration. During her tenure she pursued reform of the Police Federation, implemented a harder line on drugs policy including banning khat and brought in further restrictions on immigration. She oversaw the introduction of elected police and crime commissioners, police investigations including Operation Yewtree, the deportation of Abu Qatada and the creation of the College of Policing and the National Crime Agency. May ascended to the premiership in July 2016 following the resignation of David Cameron as prime minister and Conservative leader amid the Brexit result, and appointed Amber Rudd as her successor in the home office.
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