High time you rewarded your ‘rock’, Theresa

After her triumph in Brussels on friday morning and full steam ahead now for Brexit, theresa May has been enjoying her best headlines since that botched General election campaign and her unfortunate tory conference appearance.

Who could blame her if she wanted to sit back and take a breather during the festive period — but she must strongly resist the temptation.

Once dubbed the weakest PM since John Major when he was clinging to power, she’s now in a stronger position than at her coronation in July 2016 and needs to exploit it by flexing her muscles with a Cabinet reshuffle in the New Year.

first out should be party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin. He’s a decent man who hates the job. Put him out of his misery, Mrs May, and replace him with the most powerful tory MP that no one has ever heard of.

Graham Brady quit as a shadow minister in 2007 in protest at then tory leader David Cameron’s opposition to the introduction of any new grammar schools.

Since 2010, the MP for Altrincham and Sale West has been chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench tory MPs who wield immense power and can decide a PM’s fate before the electorate get a chance to do so.

On the weekend after the election, Brady met the PM and was crucial in her decision to hang on in there and fight back.

He’s been a rock to Mrs May ever since, and it’s time he was rewarded.

the PM should make Brady party chairman with a big Cabinet role, and give him the chance to be a new Norman tebbit or Cecil Parkinson, who were lynchpins of Mrs thatcher’s governments.

Not only is Brady a strong media performer, I hear he’d like to do the job. remember where you read it first!