A shabby end to Cameron’s tenure
Clearly, she’s had a lot on her plate.
Like Cameron, she had not expected to find herself in the top job so quickly, but it didn’t look good.
Among her most startling appointments was Boris Johnson to the post of foreign secretary, sparking outrage and mockery in equal measure around the world.
He is plainly hugely intelligent and yet, on his first day, a very flustered former London mayor couldn’t even find his car.
That said, in his Vote Leave victory speech, the beginnings of a more serious politician began to surface, so he could surprise us all – and possibly in a good way.
Well that or Mrs May has given him just enough rope to hang himself so she can sack him, neutralising his threat, when he messes up.
With the installation of other prominent Brexiteers in key posts – David Davis, Liam Fox, Priti Patel – there is a also a sense the new prime minister is reminding them “this is your responsibility”.
The other remarkable thing about her Cabinet is just how right- wing it is, at odds with her social justice message in her first speech in charge.
And she openly wants to keep her enemies closest, having promoted Andrea Leadsom – her former leadership rival – to environment secretary.
It has been a long week for the mother who was still in the running to re p l a c e Cameron on Monday morning, ultimately deciding to quit after a bruising weekend of scrutiny she somehow naively h a d n’t been expecting.
He r withdrawal was perfectly timed to coincide with Angela Eagle’s Labour leadership launch.
E m b a r r a s s i n g l y, the Wallasey MP was left taking questions from journalists who weren’t there to ask them after most of the lobby – already in transit – made an about- turn and hurriedly flocked to Mrs Leadsom’s gig instead.
And in a further blow to her campaign Owen Smith is to run against her – as Labour’s second unity candidate.
But it doesn’t matter anyway – the ruling by the party’s governing body that Jeremy Corbyn will automatically be on the ballot means he marches on regardless.