but judging by his performance in interview a week ago, I'd feel a little happier with Clarke in a more influential role among the Tories and Brexit Unit at the moment.
May being "bloody difficult" seems to be an understatement from what I've read elsewhere - stories of Labour and Tory members commiserating in Westminster corridors at the prospect of another utterly horrible meeting with her. Interpersonal skills don't seem her forte.
May has her own problems among the Tory hard right. RW blogger "Guido Fawkes" got hold of a pulled Telegraph article by Jonathan Foreman, which he reproduced in full on his blog:
READ IN FULL: Article Pulled By Telegraph After Pressure From Theresa May’s Campaign
In the run-up to the 2015 election, one of the handicaps David Cameron had to finesse was the fact that net migration to the UK was three times as high as he had promised it would be. Remarkably, none of the opprobrium this failure provoked brought forth the name of Theresa May, the cabinet minister actually entrusted with bringing migration down. Then, as now, it was as if the icy Home Secretary had a dark magic that warded off all critical scrutiny.
The fact that her lead role in this fiasco went unnoticed and unmentioned likely reflects Mrs May’s brilliant, all-consuming efforts to burnish her image with a view to become prime minister.
After all, Mrs May’s tenure as Home Secretary has been little better than disastrous – a succession of derelictions that has left Britain’s borders and coastline at least as insecure as they were in 2010, and which mean that British governments still rely on guesswork to estimate how many people enter and leave the country.
People find this hard to credit because she exudes determination and strength. Compared to many of her bland, flabby cabinet colleagues, she has real gravitas. And few who follow British politics would deny that she is a deadly political infighter. Indeed Theresa May is to Westminster what Cersei Lannister is to Westeros in Game of Thrones: no one who challenges her survives undamaged, while the welfare of the realm is of secondary concern.
Take the demoralised, underfunded UK Border Force. As the public discovered after a people-smugglers’ vessel ran aground in May, it has has only three cutters protecting 7,700 miles of coastline. Italy by contrast has 600 boats patrolling its 4722 miles.
http://order-order.com/2016/07/02/read-full-article-pulled-telegraph-pressure-may-campaign/
And, yeah, that there above is a link to
Media Guido, so it's up to you if you want to give it clicks, and I'd steer clear of the comments if I were you ...
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