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Theresa May has admitted she never gets to the end of a box set - but she refused to say whether she orders takeaway.

The Prime Minister reached new heights of awkward TV appearances in her first visit to the This Morning sofa since entering Number 10.

And she insists she'll cling on to her job, despite lacking the staying power to finish House of Cards or Game of Thrones .

Host Philip Schofield asked the PM: "Are you enjoying this job?"

When the she replied that she was, he asked: "Really?"

But she said: "Throughout my life whenever I've taken jobs on, I've never thought it's going to be like this or like that. I just get on and do it."

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Schofield pressed on, saying: "You can't have imagined it would be like this."

She replied: "Well, there's huge issues to be dealing with, but it's worthwhile."

But Schofield was not done. He went on: "When you see the words 'beleaguered', 'hanging on by a thread', 'loss of power', don't you spend a lot of your time instead of looking forward, looking behind you to see who's about to stab you in the back?"

Asked if she could cling on to her job, she said: "Yes. I'm doing a job and I'm going to jolly well get on and do it."

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She added: "What drives me is actually not what's written, but that the people out there want the government to do. That's the important thing."

As the interview drew towards a climax of cringe, host Holly Willoughby asked whether she ever gets to switch off.

She said: "I never get to the end of a boxset. It's a job where you're always thinking about it. And obviously anything can happen at any point that means you really have to be involved, but I enjoy things like cooking and walking".

As the interview drew to a close, Schofield asked: "You ever kick your shoes off and order a takeaway?"

The question went unanswered.