The daring leitmotif of her first week in office has been a purge not of Leavers but of a subset of her fellow Remainers.
He represents a proudly provincial conservatism, in which the condition of the striving classes, and of the industries on which they depend, matter a hundred times more than the City of London.
Introducing May’s thinker-in-chief and our as yet unresigned columnist. In his words and ours.