End game in sight for besieged May

To describe Prime Minister Theresa May’s grasp on power as tenuous would be to overstate her position as she enters what will surely be the final days of her tenure at 10 Downing Street.

Since the disastrous Conservative manifesto launch during her unnecessary snap election, she has been increasingly isolated by senior members of her party and none offered solace publicly over the weekend.

The loss of her key advisors, fall-guys for the disastrous election, have left her with few places to turn.

She is being described as the “caretaker Prime Minister” as she stumbles from one public relations fiasco to the next.

Brexit negotiations due to start today will offer no relief to Mrs May.

It has been made perfectly clear by those on the EU side of the negotiating table that the process will not be kept secret, as the UK government would wish.

If, as it is suspected they will, the team led by David Davis goes into the crucial early exchanges with a flimsy plan and lack of tactical nous, we will quickly know and the finger of blame will be pointed firmly at the UK’s “difficult woman”.

It will be impossible to come back from another round of fiercely critical headlines and her party or, more likely, Mrs May herself, will have to make the hard decision. She is slated to remain in power at least two more years. She will be lucky to leave for her summer holiday still in post.