Theresa May appears as a dodo on the front page of today’s Sun. Unfortunately for the beleaguered Prime Minister, the verdict isn’t much better in the foreign press. Last night’s disastrous night in the Commons makes the front pages of newspapers around the world.
The New York Times describes the Prime Minister’s defeat as ‘bruising’ and the paper says last night’s result ‘underscores how comprehensively Mrs. May has failed to hold consensus behind any single vision of how to exit the European Union’. For the Times, the PM largely has herself to blame for making history by notching up the largest defeat for a government in modern British political history: ‘her failure to convey any convincing vision of Britain’s future outside the European Union has allowed painful divisions in the country to deepen’.
May’s disastrous night also makes the front page of the Wall Street Journal, which says the scale of the defeat ‘raises new uncertainty ahead of Britain’s EU exit date’.
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