Osborne was right – for once

GEORGE Osborne took great delight in describing the Prime Minister Theresa May as a “dead woman walking” the weekend after her calamitous general election campaign.

A month on from the election, and a year on from May’s entry to Downing Street, it is hard to disagree with Osborne, who she ungraciously sacked as chancellor.

With the country having snubbed and fatally wounded her premiership, it is up to the Tory party to finish off May as PM.

Thanks to a £1billion bung to the DUP, May has the slimmest of cushions to sit on in the House of Commons. She might survive a vote of confidence but she does not have the confidence of her country or her party.

The only reason May is being kept in place just now is to avoid a general election, which the Tories fear they would lose to the much underestimated Jeremy Corbyn. She ought to be thankful it’s the left-wing socialist who faces her across the dispatch box.

Limping on to the parliamentary break in two weeks’ time might buy May another summer in Downing Street.

But the writing is on the wall and as the economic insanity of leaving the European Union becomes more and more apparent, the frothing at the mouth Eurosceptics will demand her removal. Not for the good of the country, not even in the long run for the good of the party.