Now we know who our next Prime Minister is, we’d like to know the answers to what happens next. Political journalist Rachel Sylvester – who has met Theresa May many times – predicts what we can expect from our new leader

Standing outside the famous black door to Number 10 last Wednesday, on becoming Prime Minister, Theresa May promised to lead a Government for “every one of us” not just for the “privileged few”. It was a carefully worded speech, aimed at healing the gaping wounds exposed by the EU referendum. Rhetoric that – despite her being our first female Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher – was a signal that she is determined not to be as divisive as her predecessor.

Three weeks ago, no-one could have predicted May would have the keys to Downing Street, not even May herself. Nor had I believed that the Tory leadership contest would be ended within days of an interview I had conducted with her rival Andrea Leadsom, who provoked fury by suggesting to me she would be a better PM because she had children.

May’s inaugural speech had been written in her mind for months and even years – a direct continuation of her moderniser’s warning to the Tories back at the 2002 conference when, as newly appointed chairwoman, she admonished that they were still seen as the “nasty party”. Holding true to that vision, last week, May promised to fight against the “burning injustice” of class, race and gender inequality, insisting she would govern on behalf of those struggling to make ends meet rather than a wealthy elite. Her speech proved she saw the Brexit vote as an opportunity to reform more than our relationship with Europe.

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