One upshot of May’s election fail is that the Cabinet will now be far more influential, as I say in The Sun this morning. They are determined to force her to listen to them more and not just rely on her two chiefs of staff. ‘She needs to realise she can’t do this all on her own’, complains one Secretary of State. ‘She needs a bit of help’.
The Cabinet are brutally clear about how the Tories losing their majority is May’s fault. ‘Her limitations have been fully exposed in public’, one tells me.
But May’s position is safe for now. Why? Because the Tories don’t want another election. They fear that the momentum is with Labour and that they would do even worse in an autumn poll. ‘The next time the electorate gets hold of us, they’ll do us some serious damage’ warns one former Cabinet Minister.
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