Why I think more of Theresa now

IS IT safe to come out now? Can we bear to look? No, Theresa May has not had the best of weeks, but I thought there was something noble in her doggedness in the face of disaster.

Doing her rounds of interviews during the conference, she had a new, hopeful, cheery little note patched onto her voice. Then her keynote, troop rallying campaign speech was beset by problems and deemed a disaster.

Yet I thought she adlibbed rather well, considering spontaneity is not one of her strong points. It certainly took guts to get through the damn thing, but somehow she struggled on. The Prime Minister looked near to tears when Philip May jumped up to hug her at the end, but this made me think more of her, not less.

She made it to the end, she did her duty and she has a husband who clearly loves her. That is not nothing. And if bad luck really does come in threes — croaky voice, idiot prankster, falling scenery — then it should be plain sailing from now on.

Fingers crossed.