‘Weak, weak, weak’ – May battered from both sides at PMQs

The Brexit kerfuffle has been so much fun that she wants three more months of it. That was the PM’s message to parliament today. At the start of this rowdy session some members seem to think they could terminate May’s career live on TV. Pete Wishart, the first member called, laid into her mishandling of Brexit and flung three blunt syllables at her, ‘weak, weak, weak.’

This struck the wrong note. Too brutal. And rather cheap to use a phrase coined by Tony Blair to undermine John Major.

There was a hint that the PM wishes to retain control of her destiny. She laid special emphasis on her official rank when she said, ‘as prime minister, I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than 30th June.’ Is that a promise to resign? Good news for May-bashers. Order the fizz and send out the party invites. The trouble is that her political methods are far from straightforward.