Theresa May takes over as Prime Minister this afternoon much sooner than she expected at the start of the week. First on her agenda is to appoint her Cabinet, which we are expecting to happen later today, but then the new Tory leader will have a great number of gaps to fill in when it comes to what she thinks about policy. A full leadership contest would have revealed this, but instead we will have to get to know May as she does the job.
Those looking for clues about what sort of policies the new Prime Minister will adopt could do worse than to look at the work the 2020 Conservatives Group has started doing. The internal party caucus, which largely represents centrist, modernising MPs, and has been praised by May during her truncated campaign, has set up a policy review that is looking at the economy, enterprise, public services and so on.
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