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A good operator? She called a day long conference to thrash out a Brexit agreement approved by all members ... only for two members to resign almost immediately - joining the several cabinet resignations since the last election. The chairman of the backbench committee has about 30 letters from...

Yes, I think this is true. She was certainly streets ahead of the other candidates. Not sure about a great PM though - her decision to call a general election is one of the biggest mistakes I can remember a PM making. That's caused no end of problems and her decision to get into bed with the DUP...

I'm sure but the point I'm making is that there was plenty of outcry on here about Corbyn's plans even though he laid out some elements of costing - if vague on the details. But May didn't even give any hints at all and gets a free pass.

You have to remember that, at the time, Tory MPs were heavily pro-Remain (they're still in the majority, even now) and they'd have tended to vote for a Remainer. It's true that many thought that in the circumstances, a Brexiteer would have been better but Leadsom's musings on motherhood appalled...

You're missing the point. The graph was specifically about freedom of movement: there is absolutely nothing stopping her from keeping FoM and still leaving the EU

Not true. In the first stage of the election, Crabb, Fox and Gove didn't get enough votes so they didn't go through (but they didn't quit). The final stage of the election would have been between May and Leadsom (and Leadsom quit). But, if she had stood she'd have been completely drubbed. She...

(sigh) Because a leaver wasn't elected. In the old days, the men in suits just picked a leader but it wasn't been like that for more than 40 years. If the Tories wanted a leaver as leader, they'd have picked one ... but they didn't.

That's not true though. Fox, Gove and Leadsom all stood for leader, none of them were appealing enough to the MPs but at least they did pick up the gauntlet

After Corbyn's speech last week, there were plenty of people on here decrying his 'fantasy' economics and the 'magic money tree' even though he explained where the money would come from. Yes, it was a bit back of the envelope and we needed further detail but at least he set out some element of...

This a truly appalling post: people's lives are being affected by this. I can speak from experience here: my daughter has educational special needs and went to a specialist school. She was happy there and making good progress but, because of budget cuts, it closed down last year. She now goes...

About 25 years ago, I worked for the Health Education Authority and I remember we were a bit hamstrung by the inconvenient fact that the cost of treating smokers was more than met by the money raised by tobacco tax. I don't know if that's still the case - there are far fewer smokers these days -...

That's true enough but what we could do is do more to cut down on self-inflicted illnesses. There should be much bigger tax increases on sugar, alcohol and petrol to reduce some of the damage these cause - this will help pay for the NHS but, more importantly, will help modify our behaviour...