Archive: Theresa May

May exit report: A terrible premiership with little to recommend it

It feels churlish to be too snide when a prime minister is departing, but there is very little positive to say about Theresa May's record.

Appointment of Theresa May "a positive day in British public life"

Huw Evans, Director General of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), has congratulated Theresa May on becoming Prime Minister.
NARPO "surprised" by Theresa May's choice of candidate for HMCIC

The National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) has been watching with interest the recent developments in policing and was surprised not only at the Home Secretary’s choice of candidate for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMCIC) but also at the comment that he was head and shoulders above any other candidate.
NOAH comment on Theresa May’s Mansion House speech

NOAH welcomes Theresa May’s confirmation that we should have a close relationship with the European Medicines Agency
Unite: G4S civilian investigators should send shock waves across the country

Unite the union, which represents police staff has demanded that home secretary, Theresa May steps in to halt police privatisation as the disgraced security company G4S advertises for civilian investigators to work for Warwickshire police.

Don't start pining for Theresa May: she was unspeakably dire and this disaster's on her

The fact our next prime minister could be even worse changes nothing about May's unforgivable premiership
May ends her premiership as she started it: With the greatest lie of all

Theresa May leaves Downing Street speaking of compromise and moderation - values she did noting to promote.

This prime minister was destroyed by Brexit. And the next one will be too.

Theresa May is now in the endgame of her leadership. But the person who follows her will face the same problems and the same ruin.
Fourth time lucky: May's pitiful gambit

Prime minister worsens her own situation by planning to hold a fourth vote on her deal, but it's line with her usual strategic inadequacy.

Time for the Tories to sober up

The governing party is now staring into oblivion, but even ditching Theresa May won't change anything.
Week in Review: The frazzlfication ends now. For a little bit.

Insane working hours, emotional exhaustion and a relentless drumbeat of abuse have turned politicians, journalists and news-readers into quivering wrecks.

Halloween extension: Remainers now have the chance to turn this thing around

It might not be perfect, but a half-year Article 50 extension gives plenty of opportunities to secure meaningful change to Brexit
Week in Review: Theresa May's only consistency is failure

You can set your moral watch by her. Whatever she is doing, it is by definition the worst way you could possibly behave in the circumstances.

No.10 statement: Look out for Theresa May's no-deal trap

The prime minister's statement sounded reasonable and open-minded, which was the first indication something could be very wrong.
Brexit Day is cancelled: May's final deception falls to pieces

With just hours to go until Britain was meant to leave the EU, May had one last trick to pull - but it didn't work.

The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May's resignation

It is hard to imagine a more cynical arrangement than that which the prime minister entered into with the ERG tonight.
Tonight we find out if MPs are prepared to lead us out this mess

The Letwin-Benn amendment is probably the last chance to wrestle control of this process from the dead hand of Downing Street

Week in Review: Suddenly, we kind of know what's going on

We finally know the timetable and the rules of engagement. There are are now three weeks to save the country.
Black Thursday: Britain humiliated on global stage as it begs EU for more time

After three years, the inevitable moment of humiliation and disgrace has finally arrived.

Article 50 bombshell: May's cowardice is driving us over the cliff edge

Prime minister's request for only a short extension makes no-deal more likely than ever.
Bercow detonates May's third vote with dramatic Brexit intervention

After years of petty sneers and active sabotages of parliament by the government, John Bercow finally took his revenge. Theresa May's Brexit strategy now lies in ruins.

Exactly how many times can May bring this deal back to the Commons?

The prime minister wants to bludgeon parliament into backing her deal - but there are constitutional and political limits to what she can do.
May loses a vote against herself in a crazed night of parliamentary drama

Scenes unlike any other point in modern Commons history as Theresa May's government seems to fall apart completely.

Lost & ruined: May humiliated once again by Commons

Her voice gone, rain pelting down, the benches behind her half-empty - the prime minister never looked more alone.
Week in Review: A govt coming apart at the seams

Downing Street's lack of basic moral decency competes only with its functional inadequacy.

May's Article 50 extension is a trick to take us to the real cliff edge

This is not an extension, it is a road to her ideal outcome - no-deal or her deal.
May's latest Brexit defeat: The edifice of nonsense comes tumbling down

The government has been defeated by MPs on propositions that they themselves backed two weeks ago. The whole edifice of blather and nonsense is coming tumbling down.