Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

What does Theresa May’s ‘shared society’ really mean?

While getting the Tory leadership contest out of the way quickly was good for the country following the EU referendum, it did mean that Britain gained a new Prime Minister without much idea of what she believed or wanted to do with her time in office. Theresa May did set out some principles for her government when she stood on the steps of Downing Street on her first day in the job, and in her autumn conference speech, but how she plans to help the ‘just managing’ and how much she really intends to do by way of domestic reform when Brexit is such a big distraction – and potentially a convenient excuse.

But as I say in the magazine this week,  the Tory leader is keen that Brexit isn’t the only thing by which her premiership is judged. She has chosen to make domestic reform the theme of her new year launch, writing an article

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