May clutches at final straws of pretence as Leadsom resigns

Theresa May, who is to met the 1922 Committee chair, Sir Graham Brady, on Friday. Photograph: Toby Melville/ReutersA truly bad day for Theresa May, one which would certainly count as the worst-ever for many other prime ministers, actually began very late the previous night as the newspaper front pages dropped on social media. Probably the most brutal of a scathing bunch was the Telegraph, traditionally the bible of Conservative thought: “Desperate, deluded, doomed,” it read, above a