TEARS OF A CLOWN Result came as ‘total shock’ despite shambolic campaign

May cried when the exit poll revealed her election calamity You should dry your eyes and lift the pay cap

BUNGLING Theresa May has admitted she cried when she discovered the election had been a disaster for the Tories.

The Prime Minister said she was “devastated” after husband Philip told her the 10pm exit poll on June 8 predicted the party would lose its majority.

Speaking a year to the day since becoming PM, Mrs May admitted she had not run a “perfect campaign” and the result was a “complete shock”.

She said: “I didn’t watch the exit poll myself. I have a little bit of superstition about things like that. My husband watched it for me and came and told me.

“It took a few minutes for it to sort of sink in what that was telling me.

“My husband gave me a hug and then I got on the phone to CCHQ, to the Conservative Party.

DISGRUNTLED

“I felt devastated because I knew the campaign wasn’t going perfectly but still the messages I was getting from people I was speaking to... were we were going to get a better result than we did.”

Asked if she cried, she said: “Yes a little tear. Yes, at that moment, yes.”

Despite losing her Commons majority and her credibility, she insisted she does not regret calling the snap election.

Disgruntled Tory MPS are considering whether to force her from power, either this summer or around the time of the party conference in the autumn.

In a separate interview the Prime Minister suggested she wants to stay in power for a few years.

She said it is vital to press ahead with Brexit with the two-year Article 50 process now under way.

Mrs May added: “There is a job to be done here over the next few years. I want to get on with doing that job.”

In contrast with floundering Mrs May, confident Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is planning a summer tour of marginal seats as he continues to pile the pressure on the Conservatives.

Yesterday he tore into the PM for what he branded the empty promises in her first No10 speech to tackle racial, gender longer tells me about them. Every parent knows how fast children outgrow their clothes. But I’ve dreaded the start of every term and having to find the money for new uniform.

My partner has even taken on a second job. It’s the only way to make our money go further. I’ve not had to do that but lots of my colleagues have.

Some have left the

NHS for higher paid work.

It’s not something I’d do – but

I don’t blame them.

Even though it means those of us who remain have to work even harder.

When I joined the health service, public service workers were valued and and economic injustice. Mr Corbyn said: “One year on, most people are worse off, with vital public services cut to the bone, falling wages and stagnating living standards, soaring classroom sizes and a million more on NHS waiting lists under the Tories.

“Under her government, the privileged few have benefited from tax giveaways at the expense of the majority, who have their pay reflected that. Now we have to put more into our pension pot and work for much longer.

I love what I do – trying to make a difference is the reason I get up in the morning.

Dealing with the increasing stress of my job is hard though, along with the feeling that the Government is taking us for granted.

So you should dry your tears, lift the pay cap and give staff a long overdue pay rise. It might even make you smile to know you’ve at last done

the decent thing. Angie, 47, is an ambulance worker from Rhyl in North Wales. She joined Unison in 2001, the same year she began working for the NHS. She has a 16-year-old son, and her partner also works for the Wales Ambulance Service. Angie earns around £16,000 a year. borne the brunt of Conservative cuts. Theresa May now heads a zombie government, with no ideas, no answers and no leadership.

“This is a government in name only, having to ask other parties to ‘clarify and improve’ its policies and delaying most parliamentary business until autumn.”

STRUGGLING Mum Angie