And with one bound, Theresa May is, well, not free exactly. But certainly at liberty to leave the frying pan for the next blazing inferno. The prime minister has survived talk of a leadership challenge in much the way she usually does, which is less by pulling off some dramatic intervention (for all the talk of her “emotional and personal” address to the 1922 Committee, MPs coming out of it didn’t seem able to recall a single memorable line) than by letting them have a good hard think about the alternative.
People will tolerate a surprising amount when all the other options look dreadful, which is fast becoming the guiding principle of May’s government. But while her modus operandi of grinding opponents down into a state of weary resignation still works reasonably well within her own party, it won’t help with her next challenge, which is delivering on a promise earlier this month to end austerity. Here is the real litmus test of what the Tories actually learned from their 2017 election disaster, and whether they’re capable of doing anything with that knowledge.
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