If May really does mean what she says, she should put it in writing | Andrew Rawnsley

The PM has been long on rhetoric, short on action and the Tory manifesto should contain some real promisesOn the night of Theresa May’s announcement that she was calling a snap election, she addressed a private meeting of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers. She rehearsed to them the Brexit-related arguments for going to the country that she had already offered to the public, but witnesses report that she did so without much animation.In the words of one in the audience, there was only