Forget Churchill. Never mind the Iron Duke. Ignore the claims of Pitt the Younger. The greatest prime minister in British history is Theresa May. That was the message from PMQs today. Tory after Tory stood up to heap praise on their departing chief.
Wages are up. Homelessness is falling. Employment is on the rise, thanks to her brilliant captaincy of the nation. We heard about honour, duty, courtesy and public service. It seems that she carried each of these virtues to a pitch that no successor can surpass. ‘Fantastic’ was the only word to describe her policies on mental health. Her domestic violence agenda, we were told, will be an eternal legacy. And on modern slavery she has led the world. It was as if the Tories were in the presence of a demi-god. Superwoman herself. She was appropriately dressed in an electric blue power-tunic that made one’s eye-balls smart.
Alistair Burt, (he of the timid jowls and gleaming skull), told us that May’s ‘global health programme’ had won her international prizes, and that her work on polio vaccination had ‘safeguarded millions’ around the world.
Not content with preventing global epidemics, Superwoman has rescued the government finances.
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