Every Theresa May U-turn since she became Prime Minister

Theresa May has performed a dramatic U-turn in promising to cap the so-called “dementia tax” in the face of a major Tory revolt.

The policy shift over plans to increase the amount elderly homeowners will pay towards their care in old age came just four days after her manifesto that included the initial plan was published.

After launching the Conservative manifesto, Mrs May has now said there will be an upper limit to the amount taken from people’s estates after their death.

Announced on Monday, the major reversal is the latest in the Prime Minister’s list of retreats from policies performed since she came to power.

The U-turn on dementia tax comes after Mrs May repeatedly said she would not hold an early election and after she campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union.

Here are the other big shifts in policy the electorate has seen from Mrs May over the past 12 months:

The Prime Minister campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union during the EU referendum. She said Brexit would “risk Britain’s future, our influence around the world, our security and our prosperity.”

In what is arguably the biggest U-turn of all, Mrs May said in the leadership campaign after David Cameron’s departure that she believed “Brexit means Brexit.”

Launching her leadership campaign last June, Mrs May insisted there should be no General Election until 2020.

In September the Prime Minister told interviewer Andrew Marr that there was no need for an early election, as the UK needed a "period of stability" to deal with Brexit.

As late as March 30 her official spokesman was telling reporters: "There isn't going to be one. It isn't going to happen. There is not going to be a General Election."

But on April 18, after mulling the question over on a hiking holiday in Snowdonia, she announced that she had decided an election was needed "to guarantee certainty and stability for the years ahead".

After Mrs May’s first full Budget as leader, Chancellor Philip Hammond's Budget announcement of a hike in National Insurance contributions for self-employed workers was ditched within days.

The policy was scrapped following complaints that it breached a commitment in the Conservative 2015 manifesto not to raise the levy.

Having argued for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights and the introduction of a British Bill of Rights, Mrs May dropped the idea when campaigning for the Tory leadership and said in her 2017 manifesto that the UK will remain an ECHR signatory "for the duration of the next parliament".

At the Conservative conference last September Home Secretary Amber Rudd suggested that companies would be required to publish details of its number of foreign employees. It was quickly dropped after facing opposition.

The Prime Minister said she would ensure workers were represented on company boards.She outlined that companies would be forced to put workers on boards to give them a say in decision making.

But following business disquiet at the plan, the manifesto said listed companies would be required "either to nominate a director from the workforce, create a formal employee advisory council or assign specific responsibility for employee representation to a designated non-executive director.”