May’s posturing won’t help in ‘bloody difficult’ Brexit negotiations | Jonathan Freedland

Theresa May taking on Thatcher’s hardline mantle could bring her domestic election success. But it will also unite the EU bloc in a desire to punish the UKWhat could be more exquisitely Thatcheresque than Theresa May’s promise to be “a bloody difficult woman” during upcoming Brexit negotiations? The phrase is a downmarket version of the iron lady soubriquet so gleefully embraced by Britain’s first female prime minister. They both tap into an archetype with deep root