Bad 24 hours for Mrs May. A last-minute Christmas shopping-trip to Europe yielded no bargains whatever, even though she had £39bn to splurge on an extension to her premiership. Back home she found a conspiracy of seditious Tories baying for her resignation.
The Queen of Narnia is a masochist. She finds punishment stimulating, and perhaps slightly addictive, so she showed up at PMQs looking calm and expectant. Her mood was buttressed by certainty. This evening her fate will be decided. All she has to lose is everything, but the result is out of her hands. This probably settled her nerves.
‘Brazen it out’, was her only tactic today. Asked what her shopping-trip had achieved, she blandly announced that the EU’s high lamas had been impressed by ‘the concerns and the strength of feeling in this house.’
Jeremy Corbyn started his attack by patronising her.
‘I’m delighted to see her back in her place after her little journeys.
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