Mrs May’s attempt to muddle through Brexit is fast approaching crunch time | Andrew Rawnsley
There’s a theory at Westminster that Theresa May is a much cleverer politician than she looks. The world sees a second-rate prime minister trapped in a context that she lacks the strength and agility to escape. That is the cunning disguise adopted by a maestro of manipulation with a remarkable talent for survival. Machiavelli has a sister and she lives at Number 10.
She is ruthless at dispatching wounded ministers when it suits her and as ruthless at retaining damaged ministers (Amber Rudd being the topical example) when they can serve the prime minister as human shields. She threw away the Tories’ majority at an election she didn’t have to call and yet somehow endures in Downing Street by convincing her party that she is the only one among them who can keep this rackety government on a rocky road strewn with danger.
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