We left you at the end of June just a few brief weeks after the UK General Election which had – let’s make an early bid for ‘Understatement of the Year’ – been a disappointment for the Conservatives. True, they were still in power, but only with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party. Theresa May was being roundly blamed for the defeat and critics doubted whether she could survive until the Conservative conference in the autumn.
Well, Theresa May is still leader and has survived to deliver her Prime Ministerial speech at the conference, (despite a prankster, her coughing fit and collapsing slogan). But she is holed beneath the waterline and the sharks continue to circle – although admittedly Boris Johnson is an unlikely looking shark…
