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Sitting next to each other at a debating society meeting in 1978, Oxford students Theresa Brasier and Philip May were already university sweethearts.

They had been introduced at a Conservative Association disco by Benazir Bhutto, the future Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Dressed in a gauzy red gown that she has matched carefully to her lipstick and earrings, the 21-year-old Theresa’s love of fashion is already in evidence — though today our new Prime Minister would surely shun the dated blue eyeshadow.