Theresa May’s husband has received a knighthood — a move that means the former prime minister will also have a new title.
Philip May, a constant presence at the side of his wife through her premiership and arguably her most influential adviser, has been honoured by his wife’s successor for “political service”.
The investment banker’s new title means that his wife will be styled as Lady May in an echo of the last female prime minister. After Margaret Thatcher resigned in 1990 John Major granted her husband, Denis, a baronetcy. His wife was thus styled Lady Thatcher, the title by which she was known until she received a life peerage in 1992 and became Baroness Thatcher.
Ray Puddifoot, the Conservative leader of Hillingdon council, part
