Are we heading for a Sunak and Starmer podcast?

Theresa May always had a camp appeal. The clumsiness, the dancing, the incredible squareness. Mrs Thatcher never took that crown – she had too much of a hard edge – though it was a surprise to me to discover that Australians and Americans saw only the hair and the handbags and made her that most tedious and reductive of things: a gay icon. 

But unlike Thatcher, May had a dissociation from reality not only about trivialities but also about the really important stuff. Her recent declaration that she is ‘woke and proud’ is typical of her. It’s almost gloriously out-of-touch, and her adoption of it surely means the end of that tired ‘well if that means I’m a nice person, guilty as charged!’ meme. According to her and Ruth Davidson in their recent chat, woke just means ‘alert to injustice’. It simply hasn’t occurred to May that everybody thinks they are alert to injustice.