Is Theresa May’s media honeymoon over?

Is Theresa May’s media honeymoon over? The bungled Budget might have led to a raft of bad headlines for the Government, but these were mostly aimed in Philip Hammond’s direction. Today, the Sun turns its fire on the Prime Minister. The paper says May has ‘shown she understands what most Brits want’ from Brexit. But it adds a crucial caveat: ‘until now’. The Sun says that while it agrees with her plan to leave the single market behind, it is ‘deeply concerned by suggestions that free movement may apply for a further three years’ after Brexit. Most Brits who wanted out of the EU did so to tighten up Britain’s immigration policy, the paper points out. And a Brexit plan involving open borders ‘would not only be ripe for exploitation, it would be seen by many as a betrayal of the referendum vote’. Time for Theresa May to have a re-think, the paper suggests.