BEFORE her bolt-from-the-blue announcement that she was calling a general election, most Britons had Theresa May down as an honest plodder: a safe pair of hands who kept her promises and did her homework. She trod water in the Home Office for six years while David Cameron's inner circle got on with the job of reforming the country. She became prime minister only because the Tory party was desperate for somebody who could unite pro- and anti-Brexit factions after Mr Cameron's resignation following the referendum. Mrs May's greatest qualification for the job was that she took a lukewarm position, as a reluctant Re-mainer, on the most important issue of her time-hardly Churchill on appeasement or Thatcher on the unions.
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