This Brexit mess cannot go on. Theresa May must stand down now | Matthew d’Ancona

She is said to be the only senior Tory who could preside over the talks. The trouble is, she’s making Britain an international joke“Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out”: the muttered incantation of the emperor in Robert Graves’s Claudius the God has rarely seemed so apposite. It is time for this government to drop the pretence that it is healthy and functioning. A reckoning is long past due. Daily, we see a new pustule or sore – on some days several.