Theresa May joins ‘just-about-managing’ classes

The prime minister has helped Labour achieve a comeback which would force Lazarus to give a standing ovation, writes Allan Prosser.

AS British Conservative Party officials stare transfixed at a car crash of a campaign whose twists and turns would have exceeded the wildest fantasies of a JG Ballard novel, one of the corpses lying at their feet is their reputation as “the natural party of government.”

That is no more. It is dead. Killed by self-inflicted wounds and lying under a wreath with the single word “hubris” emblazoned large upon it.