Premiermayyetbe shedding more tears

Last week Prime Minister Theresa May revealed she shed a tear when the results of the general election exit poll suggesting her party was on course to lose its majority were revealed.

The Kleenex may well have been pressed into use again yesterday as the latest politician popularity ratings were revealed.

They suggest Ms May’s stats have plummeted to the worst on record for a Prime Minister in the weeks after an election. With her overall rating sitting at a less than impressive minus 25, Ipsos Mori also claim Labour – led, lest we forget, by Jeremy Corbyn, a man repeatedly described as “unelectable” – are now ahead in the polls.

It has been a remarkably inauspicious start for Ms May’s premiership. The reasons for her plunging approval ratings are perhaps not surprising – and are not all of her own making.

Certainly, she inherited an unenviable situation from predecessor David Cameron. Having called an EU referendum he clearly thought would result in a vote to remain, both Mr Cameron and the wider Tory party had absolutely no plan in place to deal with the subsequent leave result.

Ms May’s handing of the situation has left a little to be desired, with the calling of a snap general election the obvious low point. Turning things around will be far from easy, but surely the only way is up. Surely.