Theresa May is effectively "Britain’s first Catholic prime minister", the former education secretary has claimed.
In an article for The Times yesterday, Michael Gove, MP for Surrey Heath, said Theresa May was “an Anglo-Catholic rather than a Roman Catholic, but no less a Catholic for that.”
Gove said that May, though an Anglican and the daughter of a vicar, drew enormously on Catholic social teaching in her approach to her office.
He wrote: “One of the many wonders of the Anglican Church is that it comprehends both those who think of themselves as definitively Protestant in the tradition of Thomas Cranmer and those who believe they are continuity Catholics practising a spirituality and believing in a theology that has passed down from St Augustine to Pusey and Keble. Theresa May’s father, Hubert Brasier, was a priest who very much subscribed to the latter tradition.”
