Enjoy the honeymoon, Theresa. It won’t last

Theresa May has been keen to stress that she doesn’t want this country or her government to be defined by Brexit. In her first week as Prime Minister, she has moved quickly to show that she isn’t going to be continuity Cameron. Her reshuffle made the cabinet less posh and more suburban than her predecessor’s. She has suggested that grammar schools might be on the way back, and national-interest tests could be introduced for foreign takeovers. Things are changing fast.

May — and those around her — are modernisers. It’s just that they feel the previous modernisation was wrong. In May’s opinion, the Cameroons spent too much time trying to make the Conservative party seem acceptable in Notting Hill juice bars and not enough appealing to residents of two-bedroom semis in the West Midlands. It was no coincidence that May’s reorganisation of Whitehall saw ‘climate change’ disappear from the departmental list and ‘industrial strategy’ replace it.