Isolated and fatigued, but sympathy creeps in for beseiged Theresa May

The PM is soldiering on, earning support from unlikely quarters, and showing that she is at her best when weakest

Theresa May survived her “darkest hour” , with a guarantee of more trouble ahead in the coming weeks. As the cabinet shredded itself over the proposed withdrawal deal, her DUP allies deserted her and the wheels of a no-confidence vote ground into motion, the May paradox was on display – she is at her best when at her weakest.

“Keep buggering on,” is the Churchillism one of her cabinet allies applies to her plight – and a capacity to do that is the reason that she is still there at all.

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