Theresa May attends church with her husband, Philip, near her Maidenhead constituency. She is making the economy the cornerstone of her leadership bid

Theresa May has promised to curb executive pay and install employees on company boards as she signals a break from David Cameron and George Osborne on the economy.

The home secretary will launch her national campaign to become prime minister in Birmingham today with an admission that too few people are sharing in economic success. She will pledge to clamp down on the irresponsible behaviour of big business.

In an article in The Times today, Mrs May suggests that dealing with debt and the deficit is not enough. “We need an economy that works for everyone. Because it is apparent to anybody who is in touch with the real world that people do not feel our economy works that way at all,” she says, adding: