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Theresa May, the UK’s spy queen and new prime minister
"Brexit is Brexit," said Theresa May on Monday, after it was confirmed that she would be the next prime minister of the UK during an incredibly challenging time for the country. - Ars Technica UK, 13 July 2016
Readers of these pages, however, will be familiar with May's blunt, no-thrills statements for rather different reasons to those occupying the nation as the aftershock of the EU referendum vote to leave continues to rattle through Whitehall, the City, and high streets across the land.
Because as May, 59, sits down for a cup of tea with the Queen on Wednesday afternoon, where she will be anointed Britain's new PM, following the official resignation of David Cameron, a lengthy piece of draft legislation that seeks to massively ramp up surveillance of Brits' online activity, by avowing and widening snooping powers for the police and spooks, will be debated during its second committee stage day in the House of Lords.
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