In general, Chairman May strikes me as one of the most nervous Prime Ministers I’ve ever seen, constantly worried that someone will poke his head around the door and tell her it’s all been a mistake and she must go back to being head of the drains committee on some borough council. She’s there because better qualified people are waiting for her to fail. Any Labour leader but Jeremy Corbyn (who is even more insecure) would laugh off her rehearsed, scripted and unsuccessful attempts to be witty at his expense. And the speech was like one of those garishly packaged boxes of fireworks I recall from the 1950s, promising brilliance and thunder, but delivering fizzles and pops. ...read
PETER HITCHENS: Chairman May's Brexit firecracker? It was just a pathetic damp squib
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