My shocking illness: Home 長官 Theresa May 明らかにする／漏らすs she has Type 1 糖尿病 and needs daily 注射s... but 公約するs to continue her political career

• In an 排除的 interview with the Mail on Sunday, Mrs May 明らかにする／漏らすs all
• Her 決定／判定勝ち（する） to talk candidly 茎・取り除くs partly from cruel Westminster gossip
• Some said new image was part of 計画（する） to challenge David Cameron as leader
• Type 1 糖尿病, a chronic illness, carries a 危険 of heart attacks and 一打／打撃s
  

By Elizabeth Sanderson

Published: 22:02 BST, 27 July 2013 | Updated: 22:52 BST, 27 July 2013

New 政権: Theresa May says she won't let her newly-discovered Type 1 糖尿病 get in the way of her work as Home 長官

勇敢な Home 長官 Theresa May has 公約するd to carry on her political career after 明らかにする／漏らすing that doctors have told her she must 注入する herself with insulin at least twice a day for the 残り／休憩（する） of her life.

Mrs May, 堅固に tipped to 後継する David Cameron as 保守的な leader, is 苦しむing from Type 1 糖尿病 ? which carries a 危険 of heart attacks and 一打／打撃s ? and now carries a needle with her at all times.

公表する／暴露するing the chronic 条件 in an 排除的 interview with The Mail on Sunday, Mrs May, 56, said: ‘It was a real shock and, yes, it took me a while? to come to 条件 with it.’

But she is 決定するd to 兵士 on in her gruelling 決まりきった仕事 as Home 長官, working up to 18 hours? a day.

‘The 糖尿病 doesn’t 影響する／感情 how I do the 職業 or what I do. It’s just part of life... so it’s a 事例／患者 of 長，率いる 負かす／撃墜する and getting on with it.’

She 外交上 小衝突d aside questions over whether it could stop her 達成するing her dream of 後継するing Mr Cameron, and becoming Britain’s second woman 総理大臣, 説: ‘There is? no leadership 企て，努力，提案. We have a first-class 総理大臣 and long may he continue.’

Mrs May’s 決定／判定勝ち（する） to talk candidly about the diagnosis 茎・取り除くs partly from comments about her two-石／投石する 負わせる loss.

It 誘発するd 報告（する）／憶測s that it was part of a makeover in 準備 for a Tory leadership （選挙などの）運動をする.

In fact, part of Mrs May’s 負わせる loss is a result of her 糖尿病, although she had started a new? diet and fitness 政権 before she was told in November that she had the 条件.

最初 doctors thought she had Type 2 糖尿病, but two months ago they told her she? has Type 1, a chronic 条件, 普通は 診断するd in 十代の少年少女s, which means her 団体／死体 does not produce insulin.

‘This was not some 広大な／多数の／重要な Machiavellian 計画（する） ? there is no leadership 企て，努力，提案,’ said Mrs May, 反映するing on 報告（する）／憶測s that she had been slimming 負かす／撃墜する to take on? Mr Cameron.

Putting a 勇敢に立ち向かう 直面する on her 条件, workaholic vicar’s daughter Mrs May, who frequently 作品 on her 大臣の papers until 1am, before rising at 6am, said: ‘It doesn’t and will not 影響する／感情 my ability to do my work.

‘I’m a little more careful about what I eat and there’s 明白に the 注射s but this is something millions of people have... I’m 承認する with needles, fortunately.’

Unlike Type 2 糖尿病, Type 1 cannot be controlled by diet and tablets.

Mrs May 述べるd how, coincidentally, her diet 政権 may have masked the 味方する-影響s of her debilitating illness.

The Maidenhead MP has been married to 銀行業者 husband Philip for 32 years. The couple have no children.

She first made an 衝撃 on politics by 宣言するing in 2002 that the Tories had become ‘the 汚い Party’ because of its perceived 堅い line on 問題／発行するs such as race and 福利事業.

Her political 在庫／株 rose to an 史上最高 after she finally 後継するd in 国外追放するing? the 過激な 聖職者の Abu Qatada? last month.

Bookmakers made her 4-1 favourite to become the next leader of the 保守的な Party, （太陽，月の）食／失墜ing her 競争相手 競争相手s, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

And she has brought a 類似の 選び出す／独身-minded approach to 取引，協定ing with 糖尿病.

She said: ‘There’s a 広大な／多数の／重要な 引用する from Steve Redgrave who was 診断するd with 糖尿病 before he won his last Olympic gold メダル.

'He said 糖尿病 must learn to live with me rather than me live with 糖尿病. That’s the 態度.’

The REAL 推論する／理由 I lost so much 負わせる: In a 深く，強烈に personal 公表，暴露, Home 長官 明らかにする／漏らすs 病気 behind her 劇の 負わせる loss... and scotches cruel Westminster 憶測

In the gossipy world of Westminster, nothing is ever taken at 額面価格. So when Theresa May lost so much 負わせる that even male MPs began to notice, it wasn’t long before the 共謀 theories began.

によれば the ありふれたs grapevine, her 劇の change of 外見 (she entered the House a size 14 and was a size 10 by last April) was not the result of a healthy diet but a 冷笑的な makeover designed to 倒れる David Cameron.

The Home 長官 was 明確に positioning herself as a 未来 leadership 競争相手, her image now as polished as her political ambitions.

At home: Mrs May still enjoys a tipple but sticky toffee pudding is now off the menu

In fact, as she 明らかにする／漏らすs today, it was nothing of the sort. The 大臣 had instead developed Type?1 糖尿病, an incurable life-long 条件 that means her 団体／死体 cannot produce insulin ? and which raises the 危険 of heart attacks and 一打／打撃s.

Speaking for the first time about her illness to The Mail on Sunday, the 56-year-old 政治家，政治屋 is pragmatic and sensible in that わずかに school ma’amish way of hers, but there’s little 疑問ing the news （機の）カム as a blow.

‘It was a real shock and, yes, it took me a while to come to 条件 with it,’ she 収容する／認めるs.

‘It started last November. I’d had a bad 冷淡な and cough for やめる a few weeks. I went to my GP and she did a 血 実験（する） which showed I’d got a very high sugar level ? that’s what 明らかにする／漏らすd the 糖尿病.

‘The symptoms are tiredness, drinking a lot of water, losing 負わせる but it’s difficult to 孤立する things.

'I was drinking a lot of water. But I do anyway. There was 負わせる loss but then I was already making an 成果／努力 to be careful about diet and to get my gym 開会／開廷／会期s in.

'Tiredness ? speak to any 政治家，政治屋 and they will tell you the hours they work. Tiredness can be part of the 職業. It is 十分な on.’

The illness means Mrs May will have to 注入する insulin at least twice a day for the 残り／休憩（する） of her life, carrying a pen needle with her to 配達する the hormone her 団体／死体 needs.

‘It’s the paraphernalia and that 肉親，親類d of practical 味方する of it that was a bit of a shock,’ she 収容する／認めるs. ‘I’m 承認する with needles, fortunately. I took the 見解（をとる）, 井戸／弁護士席 I’m going to have to do this so just get on with it.

‘At the moment I’m on a couple of 注射s a day. We’ll see how things go. The 推薦 is you 注入する in your stomach but you can do it in the thighs 同様に.’

解任するing the first time she had to 注入する, a daunting prospect for anyone, the Home 長官 is 気が進まない to show vulnerability.

‘The specialist nurse showed me what to do the first time. But you get into 決まりきった仕事s. It becomes second nature, I suppose. You just have to make sure you have everything with you.

'So you have to make sure you have all the bits and pieces wherever you go. I also have to make sure I eat 定期的に.

Mrs May, who has served as Home 長官 for three years, is the longest serving woman in one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な offices of 明言する／公表する after Margaret Thatcher

The diagnosis comes as Mrs May is under 増加するing scrutiny as a 可能性のある 後継者 to David Cameron and fresh from victory over 過激な 聖職者の Abu Qatada, pictured, who was finally 国外追放するd to Jordan on her watch

‘There’s a 広大な／多数の／重要な 引用する from Steve Redgrave who was 診断するd with 糖尿病 before he won his last Olympic gold メダル. He said 糖尿病 must learn to live with me rather than me live with 糖尿病. That’s the 態度.’

The diagnosis comes at a 決定的な time for the Maidenhead MP. Mrs May is under 増加するing scrutiny as a 可能性のある 後継者 to David Cameron and is fresh from victory over the 過激な 聖職者の Abu Qatada, who was finally 国外追放するd to Jordan on her watch.

Political leadership aspirations are rarely 率直に 定評のある and Mrs May is no different.

明確に exasperated at the link that was made between her 負わせる loss and any wider ambitions, she says: ‘It’s 半端物 because you can 刻々と lose 負わせる, then all of a sudden it’s “Oh!”.

'You want to say: 現実に I’ve been losing it for the last year.

‘This was not some 広大な／多数の／重要な Machiavellian 計画（する） because there is no leadership 企て，努力，提案. We have a first-class leader and a first-class 総理大臣 and long may he continue.’

We move on to 比較して safer 領土: the 大臣’s beloved kitten heels.

People with 糖尿病 苦しむ bad 循環／発行部数 and 増加するd 危険 of 神経 損失, meaning their feet must be 監視するd for small 削減（する）s that can lead to ulcers.

So does this mean sensible footwear 今後? The Home 長官 gives a surprisingly girlish laugh.

The 大臣's beloved kitten heels have not been banned に引き続いて the 糖尿病 diagnosis. 苦しんでいる人s must have their feet 監視するd for small 削減（する）s that can lead to ulcers because of poor 循環／発行部数

‘I have to say the advice they give on shoes does not やむを得ず 含む kitten heels. But, no, I’ve not been banned from wearing them.’

Pottering around the kitchen of her home in the pretty Berkshire village of Sonning-on-Thames, Mrs May is 有望な and cheery, making tea and chatting about her cookery 調書をとる／予約するs ? there are over 100 lining the 棚上げにするs, while in the 熟考する／考慮する, copies of the 観客 magazine sit と一緒に Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

You’d never know she’d landed at Heathrow two hours 以前, after a week of 支援する-to-支援する 会合s in Washington and California.

Or that two months ago doctors told her they were 修正するing their diagnosis, 明らかにする／漏らすing that the 状況／情勢 was worse than 推定する／予想するd.

最初 they thought she had? Type 2 糖尿病, where the 団体／死体 doesn’t produce enough insulin to 機能（する）／行事 適切に and which can be 扱う／治療するd with tablets.

But last May they said it was Type 1, a far いっそう少なく ありふれた 条件, usually 設立する in 十代の少年少女s, when the 団体／死体 doesn’t produce any insulin.

About 90 per cent of all three million UK adults with 糖尿病 have Type 2.

‘My 初期の reaction was it’s a 苦痛 because I was having to take tablets. But it didn’t make any real difference. I could manage it.

‘But the tablets weren’t having any 衝撃. So I had some more 実験（する）s and saw a specialist. He said it was Type 1.

‘I didn’t r ealise that at my 行う／開催する／段階 of life you could develop Type 1. But 明らかに there is a 百分率 of the 全住民 in whom it’s latent and they just don’t know what it is that 誘発する／引き起こすs it.’

The 政治家，政治屋 can still enjoy a glass of ワイン or a gin and tonic with her husband Philip, an 投資 経営者／支配人 she met at Oxford University, but white bread, cake and sticky toffee pudding are all now off the menu.

Changing profile: Pictured in 2010, left, and 2011, 権利, before the two 石／投石する 負わせる loss partly brought on by Theresa May's diagnosis of Type 1 糖尿病

‘Luckily it’s not been such a hardship as I was 存在 careful any way,’ she says. ‘I used to love cake but don’t eat it so much any more.

'It’s funny. Once you’re told you can’t have something, like sticky toffee pudding... I only used to have it probably twice a year in reality... but then you can’t stop thinking about it.’

Mrs May was already a 正規の／正選手 gym goer when 診断するd, having joined when she entered 議会 in 1997, after realising the （死傷者）数 her 職業 would take.

‘When I first entered 議会, within about six months I realised either I was going to start going to the gym or I would 結局最後にはーなる pretty unhealthy, because of the lifestyle and the 招待s you get.

‘It was a bit of shock to the system. I 設立する it やめる difficult. You just have to tell yourself it will get better. And it does .??.??. sort of.’

The 政治家，政治屋 has lost a little under two 石／投石する over the last 18 months. She says she’s now between a size 10 and 12 but dressed in Armani ジーンズs and a crisp white shirt, she looks tremendously 削減する for any age, never mind a woman in her 50s.

This all takes an アイロンをかける discipline but as her three years at the Home Office have shown, she is nothing if not 決定するd.

The 役割 is a perilous one ? there were six home 長官s in the six years up until her 任命 ? yet Mrs May has 栄えるd.

Known for her Thatcherite appetite for 詳細（に述べる）, the 政治家，政治屋 is famous for working her way through her 大臣の red boxes until the 早期に hours.

‘I try not to go beyond 1am. I’m getting more ruthless with myself,’ she 主張するs.

‘In this particular 役割 it’s too tempting to 軽食 over the red box late at night. So I was consciously 存在 careful about what I was eating and 演習ing. I didn’t want to put 負わせる on and the happy 影響 was I started losing it.’

But whispers of a make-over began in February. 労働 MP Keith Vaz criticised Mrs May’s 外見, tweeting: ‘A bit worried about Home 長官. She is looking a bit thin these days. A new diet or 圧力 of work?’

His 発言／述べるs 刺激するd cross-party 激しい非難. Ironically, although Vaz didn’t know about his fellow 政治家，政治屋’s 条件, he too 苦しむs from 糖尿病.

Pictured in 2012, left, and this year, 権利, Mrs May's slimline look was said by Westminster gossipmongers to be part of her 準備 to 企て，努力，提案 for the Tory leadership - but little did they know the illness behind it

Mrs May says: ‘I wasn’t best pleased. I thought 現実に it 回復するd on him rather than anything to do with me. I thought it was unfortunate that he felt he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to make those sorts of personal comments.

‘I don’t know which type he has but he does have 糖尿病, he’s について言及するd it in 議会 .??.??. so I will be 利益／興味d to see what the next thing he chooses to say will be.’

But politics is now a personal 商売／仕事. And Mrs May, with her いつかs eccentric fashion choices, knows that more than most.

‘There’s a lot of 焦点（を合わせる） on a woman’s 外見. What’s important is for people to feel comfortable in themselves. I think people should be true to themselves and what they are.

'I enjoy 着せる／賦与するs, I enjoy fashion and I’ve had さまざまな descriptions of what I wear over the years, some 肯定的な, some not. You get more used to it and take it in your stride a bit more easily but of course it’s 失望させるing.

‘If you feel you’ve bought a really nice outfit and you look 広大な／多数の／重要な in it and somebody makes some disparaging comment about it, you do feel a bit, 井戸／弁護士席, hang on a minute... That’s just natural.’

A vicar’s daughter, Mrs May grew up in Oxfordshire and went into the City. 利益／興味d in poli tics from childhood, she was elected to Merton Borough 会議 in London and was finally chosen as a Tory 議会の 候補者 in 1995 on her fifth 試みる／企てる.

Her rise was swift. In 2002 she became the first 女性（の） chairman of the 保守的な Party and she went on to work at 輸送（する） and Work & 年金s, before Cameron gave her the Home Office.

One of only four 女性（の） members of the 閣僚, she is now the longest serving woman to have held any of the 広大な／多数の／重要な offices of 明言する／公表する, after Margaret Thatcher.

にもかかわらず 試みる／企てるs to get more women into politics, there are still only 48 women 保守的な MPs and 256 men.

She says: ‘I think very often the 問題／発行する for women is that they feel they can make a difference in different ways.

'I think often they feel the 焦点（を合わせる） on their personal life is difficult and a lot of women worry what it means for their family.

Mrs May is famous for her 18-hour working days, ploughing through her 大臣の boxes until the 早期に hours before rising at 6am

'And very often women just do politics in a different way to men. This is a 抱擁する generalisation, but with women it’s いっそう少なく about the 積極的な 手渡す-to-手渡す 戦闘 and more often about the 法廷の argument.

‘You do have to be tenacious. Things don’t move quickly and there’s an inbuilt inertia in the system. If you take your foot off the pedal, it will move 支援する to where it was. You just have to keep going, not give up 基本的に, until you 達成する the ultimate goal.’

She may 同様に be 述べるing her 戦う／戦い to 除去する Abu Qatada from the country.

Last month, she finally 後継するd in （国外逃亡犯を）引き渡すing him to Jordan but it took six home 長官s 12 years to 排除する／（飛行機などから）緊急脱出する the 過激な preacher.

She says: ‘Everyone rightly says, why did it take so long? There’s a need for us to look at our 関係 with the European 法廷，裁判所 of Human 権利s and nothing should be off the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する ーに関して／ーの点でs of that.

'And we need to 適用する our own 過程s of 国外追放 and 国外逃亡犯人の引渡し. We’re bringing an 移民／移住 法案 to 議会 in the autumn and this will make it easier to 除去する people.’

移民／移住 will be 最高の，を越す of Mrs May’s 協議事項 when she returns to Westminster after the summer 休会. And it’s （疑いを）晴らす the 糖尿病 has made no difference to her grit and 決意.

‘The 糖尿病 doesn’t 影響する／感情 how I do the 職業 or what I do. I’m a little more careful about what I eat and there’s 明白に the 注射s.

'But it’s just part of life. It’s やめる 平易な to adjust to, once you’ve learnt what it is and how to do it. No, it’s 商売／仕事 as usual.

‘There’s still a lot to do s o it’s a 事例／患者 of 長，率いる 負かす／撃墜する and getting on with it.’