29-05-2017 13:33 via theguardian.com

Can Theresa May’s secret weapon save her faltering campaign? | Mark Wallace

Before the social care fiasco, May was lucky: her vision of renewed working-class conservatism seemed the perfect fit for the times. It could still workPolitics at the top demands trade-offs. Every prime minister does the things that they have to do, in order to buy the right to do the things they want to do.That is more difficult for some than for others. David Cameron had a tough time: he never wanted to be Mr Austerity, but circumstances forced him to be much more flinty and less cuddly than
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