Is Theresa May growing in confidence again? At the weekend, the Prime Minister warned Brexit rebels against blocking Britain leaving the EU, and tried to force their hands by tabling an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill on the date of Brexit. That hasn’t gone down so well with the rebels, who are variously tabling their own amendments to try to strike out that proposal and describing May as being ‘tin-eared’. But it did suggest that the Prime Minister felt more like challenging her critics than she has for a while. The problem is that the way she has previously challenged her critics has indeed made her look tin-eared and a little entitled, as she did when she called the snap election, complaining about those who wanted to frustrate the government.
A more successful course of action from a confident Prime Minister was in evidence last night when May spoke at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet.
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