Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Theresa May’s last-minute legacy panic

Theresa May has just a handful of days left as Prime Minister, but is still trying to secure a domestic legacy for herself. She is doing this in a last-minute manner that makes David Cameron’s famous essay crises look incredibly well-organised. Last week, she called for better design rules to prevent ‘tiny homes’ being built, which sounded odd given as Prime Minister she could feasibly have introduced some rules herself.

May would say that her beef is with local government, not her own failure, when it comes to the lack of quality in newly-built homes. Localism is very convenient when it allows you to blame someone else for not doing something.

She would also have a number of convenient excuses for failing to get the Domestic Abuse Bill, which was supposed to be the flagship piece of legislation in the last Queen’s Speech, onto the statute books.

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