I suspect the prime minister will emerge curiously strengthened by her speech. She may be unpopular,but survive she will. For the time beingGone by the autumn: that was the conventional wisdom when Theresa May failed to win her election majority final summer. She was a dead woman walking. She would not even construct it to her party conference, let alone survive it.
She is still there, or shows no signs of leaving. So much for the conventional wisdom,biased always to apocalypse and bored by continuity. But it remains a close call. May’s construct-or-break” speech in Manchester began confidently, bathed in personal apologias and cliches approximately dreams. Then her throat went on strike. Water and lozenges did no good. Letters started falling off the stage sign. A protester defied security and handed her – or was it her voice? – a P45. For an agonising half-hour, or the prime minister was in industrial dispute with her throat,until finally the adrenaline kicked in.
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Source: guardian.co.uk