The Waugh Zone May 19, 2017

The five things you need to know on Friday, May 19…This morning's "optimistic" Waugh Zone is by Ned Simons. Paul is away.1) MAYISM IS A THING"There is no 'Mayism'," the prime minister demurred at her manifesto launch yesterday. But it's hard to see her rejection of "selfish individualism" and the ripping up of several Cameron-era commitments as anything other than Theresa May making a break from Thatcherism and forging her own brand of Conservatism. As Paul, who was in Halifax for the man