Today Downing Street achieves its immediate post-election aim: Theresa May makes it to the summer recess. As I say in the pol col this week, Number 10 have long hoped that the summer break will give the government a much-needed chance to regroup and that conditions will be easier when parliament resumes in the autumn.
Is this hope realistic, though? A summer holiday can do lots of things but it can’t magic up another 20 Tory MPs or put time on the Brexit clock. Those Tories placing their faith in the atmosphere being calmer when parliament returns are forgetting how soon after that the party conference season begins—and that it will make the Westminster summer party circuit look like a mindfulness festival.
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