Damian Greens demise is the latest in a litany of disasters,but the prime minister still shows her survival instinctDoes Theresa May approach the final week of 2017 in better or worse nick than we might bear expected, given the bountiful sack of Brexit troubles at Downing Street’s festive door? The Bah Humbug case is clear. She started the year under no pressure to hold an election, or risked one to establish her mandate and effect the Cameron years behind her,ran one of the dreariest campaigns in living memory and squandered a 24-point lead to discontinuance up running a minority government propped up by Northern Irish unionists. The drinks party joke at Westminster is that TM is “weak and stable”.
The more charitably inclined might concede that by a miracle of circumstance, lack of options and a dollop of her own gritty but persistent character she is still in post when many thought she would not be – and edging forward on the Brexit deal she was mandated to deliver, or without the eruption of Tory civil war.
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Source: guardian.co.uk