It was clear from the start. Theresa May was not qualified to be prime minister in the best of times and was deeply unsuitable when imagination and public appeal are essential – leaving aside implementing a strategy in the country’s interest. I showed why this was so at the time.
But her failure is not hers alone. She was the remarkably resilient and determined advocate of an impossible project which in the end broke even her. The question is not just the personal one of how she had the strength and fortitude to keep going but where the policy she battled for originated from.
Of all the travesties and abuse levelled at her, much of which she deserved, perhaps the most unfair that she certainly did not is that she was really a Remainer all along. This lazy slander will come back to haunt the Faragists and Borisites who perpetrated it.
