Theresa May departure: Boris Johnson’s more than a showman

It was hard not to feel some degree of sympathy for Theresa May as she drove through the gates of Buckingham Palace yesterday to offer her resignation as prime minister to Queen Elizabeth.

She had, after all, been passed a poisoned chalice by her predecessor David Cameron; the pity of it is that she drank from it copiously throughout her abridged premiership. Her failure to surround herself with trusted cabinet members, relying instead on inept advisers, along with her inability to persuade parliament to accept a deal she had negotiated, left her politically adrift in London and ineffective in Brussels.