It is astonishing to reflect that the prime minister’s announcement on Wednesday of her resignation plans was by no means the most important political story of the week. Far from it, in fact. In normal circumstances – of which you may have a dim recollection – Theresa May’s declaration that she “won’t stand in the way” of “a new leadership” once her Brexit deal was approved would have driven all other news to the margins, rocked the markets, gripped the world. But, in these extraordinary times, such a story is just another day at the office.
And rightly so. As significant as the identity of the next Conservative leader undoubtedly is – not least because that person will probably be the next prime minister – it is small potatoes compared with the redefinition of Britain’s relationship with the European Union and the scandalously amateurish process by which that matter is being decided.
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