THERESA May has revealed her frustration at being branded "robotic" during June's General Election campaign, when she lost the Conservatives' overall majority after a campaign widely branded lacklustre.
Appearing on BBC Radio's Test Match Special, Mrs May said she would have liked to meet more voters during the campaign and insisted: "I don't think I'm in the least robotic."
The Prime Minister, branded a "glumbucket" during the election campaign, suffered severe criticism for refusing to take part in TV head-to-heads with fellow party leaders.
She sought to shake off comparisons with the UK's only previous female premier, saying: "There was only ever one Margaret Thatcher. I am Theresa May and I do things in my way and the circumstances of the government are different."
Keen cricket fan Mrs May took home-made chocolate brownies for the Test Match Special team, saying she baked them on Thursday evening to a Nigel Slater recipe.
And she said that the last time she paid a visit to the programme, she gave the brownies to Geoffrey Boycott and did not know whether he shared them with his fellow presenters, joking: "Geoffrey Boycott has still got my Tupperware."
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