While Alastair Campbell’s insistence that Tony Blair’s Government “didn’t do God” is seen as a maxim for politicians to follow, Theresa May had no such reticence talking about her faith when she appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs last week. The Home Secretary, who many see as a possible future Prime Minister, is a Anglican vicar’s daughter and regular communicant of the Church of England. She said that while she didn’t believe politicians should flaunt their faith, it is “part of me, part of who I am” and helps frame her thinking and approach. For her second record, May chose the “Tantum Ergo”, the last two verses of St Thomas Aquinas’ hymn “Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium” about
27 November 2014, The Tablet
Doing God
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