It’s a new year, a new dawn, a new day – and for many Brits a fresh start. Unless you’re Theresa May. The Prime Minister begins 2019 with things much the same as they were in 2018. Her party is at war over Brexit, she still has a hugely unpopular piece of legislation to pass and her rivals are circling – attempting to boost their appeal to the Tory membership in anticipation of an eventual leadership contest.
After a briefing war between No.10 and the Home Office over the Christmas period – which saw details of leadership frontrunner Sajid Javid’s luxury holiday wind up in the papers – it’s now the turn of Jeremy Hunt to cause a stir. The Foreign Secretary is in Singapore flying the flag for Global Britain. In a speech, Hunt said the UK could act as an ‘invisible chain’ linking democracies across the world (though some are questioning whether the countries Hunt has in mind are really democracies in the purest sense).
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