Theresa May's vision for Britain comes into focus

BEFORE her bolt-from-the-blue announcement that she was calling a general election, most Britons had Theresa May down as an honest plodder: a safe pair of hands who kept her promises and did her homework. She trod water in the Home Office for six years while David Cameron's inner circle got on with the job of reforming the country. She became prime minister only because the Tory party was desperate for somebody who could unite pro- and anti-Brexit factions after Mr Cameron's resignation following the referendum. Mrs May's greatest qualification for the job was that she took a lukewarm position, as a reluctant Remainer, on the most important issue of her time'hardly Churchill on appeasement or Thatcher on the unions.Yet Mrs May has scrambled her reputation as well as electrifying British politics. A safe pair of hands' Some pollsters had advised Tory high-command not to risk an election on the grounds 48% of the country wants to stay in the European Union and Tory voters (particularly in the south) might scatter to the winds. A promise-keeper' Mrs May had made a clear pledge not to hold a general election before her time was up. A second-division politician' Calling...Continue reading
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