She was one of five Tory leaders, each disastrous in different ways, who will keep historians busy for decades
has announced she is leaving the political stage at the next election while polls indicate that the party she headed for three years faces wipeout after 14 years in office despite last week’s budget tricks.
Amid the divisions inflamed by a foolish referendum and the determination of both Brexiteers and Remainers to destroy any deal, she faced an uphill struggle. And the characteristics that ensured survival for six years in the home office and propelled the vicar’s daughter to the top job ended up intensifying her struggles in Downing Street with her defensiveness, inscrutability, mistrust and failure to build alliances.
May fought hard for women in politics, took on police over racist stop and search, tried to find a way to fund social care and genuinely cared about issues such as mental health and modern slavery. Above all, she ensured Britain was the first big economy to commit to carbon neutrality by 2050, leaving a lasting monument.It is telling that a man who has achieved so little in his fag-end administration gets my nod in silver medal position, despite his.
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