YP Comment: May's bid to save premiership

She’s only doing so, on the eve of her premiership’s first anniversary, because she’s totally at the mercy of others if she wants to lead a ‘bold’ government that is committed to making Brexit for all while tackling injustice across society.

Yet, while there are far-reaching issues like Brexit, social care and public-sector pay that demand co-operation between the major parties if any tangible progress is to be made, Mrs May needs to show her willingness to work with, and accommodate, others.

Are rivals really going to risk their reputations after she lost the confidence of the country on June 8? And, more to the point, will the Tory party still support a Prime Minister when some of those close to David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, believe that she is “dead in the water” and has “lost her authority”?

Mrs May had a golden opportunity to be more collaborative and work across the political divide when she became PM. It’s what the country actually wanted last summer. If she had done so rather than relying upon the flawed judgement of those discredited policy aides who thought they were running the country, she might not have felt the need to call an election. If the Tory leader is serious about working with others, tomorrow’s policy speech will include a cross-party commission to handle Brexit. After all, the country’s future is, frankly, more important than a Prime Minister’s survival.