Was 2016 good or bad? May and Johnson differ in Christmas messages

Addresses to the nation inconsistent, with PM saying there is much to celebrate while foreign secretary acknowledges ‘gloomy bits’Cabinet message discipline went awry on Saturday after Theresa May and Boris Johnson issued Christmas statements to the nation that came close to contradicting each other.The prime minister and her foreign secretary did not disagree on policy, or party politics or the intricacies of Brexit, but on something more basic: whether 2016 was a good year or a bad