Theresa May’s survival is just a Tory confidence trick | Gary Younge

Conservative MPs sustain her not because she will deliver a good Brexit, but because she can keep Labour out of powerBack in 2017, when “strong and stable” was still a campaign slogan and not a laugh line, I sat in on a focus group of undecided voters in Harrow – home to two marginal seats in north-west London. Even then they didn’t like Theresa May much. Assuming she would be an effective negotiator, they appreciated her steeliness – the word “strong” c