Thursday marks the first anniversary of Theresa May becoming Prime Minister. As I say in The Sun this morning, several of her closest allies regard this as an opportunity to start trying to win back voters’ trust and respect.
May has, by necessity, got rather good at apologising post-election. Her it’s my mess and I’ll get us out of it line to the 1922 Committee staved off an immediate leadership challenge. While her humility at the Tory donors ball at the Hurlingham Club went down well with the party’s money men. But what May hasn’t had is a moment of contrition with the public. She hasn’t yet come up with a moment to erase the memory of her ill-judged speech outside Downing Street straight after the election which suggested that she didn’t realise anything had changed.
May needs to acknowledge that in the election campaign she lost the trust of too much of the country.
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