Theresa May's image removed from Conservative party website homepage for first time since becoming PM, claim Labour

Raising the issue at Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour MP Toby Perkins said: ‘For the first time since she became Prime Minister, her image has now been removed from the front page of the Conservative party website’

The Conservative Party homepage on 12 July, 2017 (The Conservative Party)

Theresa May’s image has been removed from the Conservative party website homepage for the first time since she became Prime Minister, Labour has claimed.

Despite the focus of the general election campaign being centred on the Prime Minister – and “team Theresa May” – any reference or image of the embattled Ms May appears have been removed from the homepage of the website for the first time.

Raising the issue at the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions, the Labour MP Toby Perkins said: “Politicians are said to be here today and gone tomorrow, but whatever tomorrow may bring the Prime Minister isn’t even here today to mark the end of her first year in power.

“For the first time since she became Prime Minister, her image has now been removed from the front page of the Conservative party website.”

He continued: “Can the First Secretary tell us why she has gone from being the next Iron Lady to the lady vanishes?”


 Ms May was still featured on the party website in April 2016 (The Conservative Party )
 (The Conservative Party)

In response, the First Secretary Damian Green, who was deputising for Ms May as she accompanied the King of Spain on his state visit to the UK, said: “The honourable gentleman is ingenious in asking very personal questions. I commend him for it.”

The removal of the Prime Minister from the homepage could have something to do with the dramatic fall in her approval ratings since she called the snap election earlier this year. According to one poll by ICM for the Guardian, Ms May’s net approval rating is now negative while Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, has a positive score – a reversal of the pre-election trend.

According to another poll, 44 per cent of respondents said the Labour leader was doing a “good job” and 28 per cent had a similar opinion of the Prime Minister.