May has little alternative but to seize Dodds by the hand and take him for a bop on the dance floor. But the case against doing so has a curious persistence.
She cannot be a stationary establishment figure when faced with the restless mood of the voting public. She must move forwards – or we risk a 1997-style wipeout.
There are only five days to go until the start of the Brexit negotiations. May cannot afford to make a reshuffle mess of a department from which she has now lost two Ministers.
Conservative MPs should get wise to Osborne’s attempt to bluff, panic and stampede them into backing Single Market membership – and no proper migration control.
A massive poll lead. Going early. A wooden leader. Mindless mantras. A despised opposition. And then collapse. The parallels are uncanny: why didn’t Crosby warn her?
Despite the outcome, our manifesto was a step in the right direction, from which we must not retreat backwards.
There is a natural path ahead: announce a resignation by the end of next week, and allow a contest to take place over the summer.
The Party is damned if she goes quickly, and damned if she doesn’t. And, all the while, the threat of a no confidence challenge hangs over her head.
Labour’s handouts must be exposed as a self-defeating deception – as must the danger of what happens when “there is no money left”.
First Timothy quits as May’s co-Chief of Staff. Now Hill, the other co-Chief of Staff, has gone too.
May understands Britain’s divisions, and has been working to address them. The campaign, however, failed to get her positive plan for the future across.
Obviously, members and our readers are angry in the election’s aftermath. None the less, it is the most damning finding that in one of our polls that I can remember.
My generation are a generation who don’t watch TV and don’t read newspapers – but do watch YouTube and get their news from Facebook.