Theresa May has few friends at the moment. But while her Christmas card list might be dwindling, her tally of critics is growing rapidly. Yesterday, John Major urged the Prime Minister to ditch a deal with the DUP or risk jeopardising the peace process in Northern Ireland. Now, David Cameron has waded in, calling for the PM to adopt a ‘softer’ approach to Brexit in the wake of last week’s election disaster. The former PM also said that his successor should change tack and ‘listen to other parties’ on the best way of leaving the EU.
So, just another ex-Tory leader with too much time on their hands determined to take up the role of a backseat driver? The headlines reporting Cameron’s intervention — ‘David Cameron calls on Theresa May to embrace “softer” Brexit’ — suggest as much. Yet there’s more to Cameron’s comments than meets the eye.
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