PM is exposed as a hypocrite... and I used to like her

JUST a few months ago, if you’d asked me what I thought of Theresa May, I would have said that – while I disagreed with her politics – I admired her character. I considered her strong and principled, with a basic sense of decency.

What a difference seven weeks make. She has been shown up as tetchy and thin-skinned about criticism, weak and unstable under pressure, cowardly when faced with a challenge, and deceitful when it suits her political ends.

More than anything, I believe she has been exposed as a hypocrite.

She is happy to trade on her faith one minute, then tell blatant lies about Jeremy Corbyn the next. She viciously attacks Diane Abbott over getting her numbers wrong in an interview, then brazenly refuses to offer her own costings.

Most sickening of all, she stands outside No10 and tells the British public that “enough is enough” on terrorism, then goes back inside to call her jihadist-funding friends in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and see what deals she can strike.

It is hard to imagine a bigger contrast to Jeremy Corbyn, who has stuck by his principles with an integrity, honesty and steadfastness that shames Theresa May. If anyone has been strong and stable in this campaign, it is him.