Theresa May is behaving like a prime minister who has worked out that taking cautious steps to cling on to power is a bankrupt strategy.
The ruthlessness with which she dispatched her defence secretary Gavin Williamson, who was till recently her closest ally, is one piece of supporting evidence.
The point is that when he allegedly told senior armed forces personnel that ‘I made her and I can break her’, it was not just bluster. As the behind-the-scenes organiser of her campaign to become leader (dispatched to do that job by Cameron and Osborne – who wanted to stop Boris) and as her ruthlessly effective chief whip, he was an invaluable supporter.
From which it follows that if Williamson now chooses to become her enemy, he would be formidable.
But she doesn’t care.
Why not?
Well on her brief walking holiday, it may well have sunk home that she now has more enemies than friends on her own benches.
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