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It's one year since Theresa May became prime minister.
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In her very first speech, she made clear that she wants to be about more than just Brexit.
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She wanted concrete domestic achievements, like those of her predecessors.
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Tony Blair in his first year introduced the minimum wage
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and gave independence to the Bank of England.
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Gordon Brown nationalized Northern Rock, and David Cameron laid the basis for free schools.
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These are the kind of things you could put in their biography.
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What about Mrs. May?
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What has she achieved in her first year?
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[Flagship Policies]
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Well, she's announced the third runway at Heathrow,
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although David Cameron probably would have done that.
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She's continued with High-Speed Rail 2,
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with new Trident submarines, and with a higher minimum wage,
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although David Cameron probably would've done those things as well.
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Her defining policy was meant to be an end to the ban on new grammar schools,
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but that was actually binned after the disappointing June election.
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So, Mrs. May has announced an extra 2 billion pounds a year of spending on research and development.
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That's a 20% increase by 2020.
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And, more controversially, she's funneled 1 billion pounds to one of the poorest parts of the UK,
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Northern Ireland, as part of her deal with the Democratic Unionist Party.
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Is that it?
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[Other Plans]
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Well, not quite.
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She's done a few other things.
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She has suggested that Channel 4, the broadcaster, will move to Bermingham
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as part of an effort to decentralize the UK economy away from London.
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And she said that toxic microbeads, found in toiletries, will be banned from later this year.
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But those are hardly defining moves.
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So what about Brexit?
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[Brexit talks]
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Mrs. May triggered article 50 in March.
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That really is a defining move that another conservative prime minister
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might not have done so quickly.
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Vote Leave has suggested Britain should wait before triggering the two-year countdown.
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Mrs. May has also said that the Britain will leave the European Customs Union and Single Market.
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If those things happen, they will be her legacy.
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But she wanted to be about so much more than Brexit,
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and her first year hasn't give her much of a platform.