How Theresa outlasted the charmless men

Theresa May must be relishing the way her Westminster supremacy has made several mean-spirited men look like fools.

First, the BBC’s Nick robinson confessed he once thought she was so dull that when she was home secretary, he turned down an invitation to lunch with her. Then, misogynist colleague Jeremy Paxman said: ‘Theresa May? she’s the person you only have lunch with once.’

Now, here-today-gone-tomorrow Lib Dem David Laws admits to have had disobliging thoughts about Mrs May when she was made home secretary in 2010.

he was a Treasury minister in the then Coalition and described their first encounter. ‘I was sitting in my office... me in one armchair, the home secretary in the other, with no official present. she looked nervous. I felt she was surprised to find herself as home secretary. I didn’t expect her to last more than a couple of years.’

This ungentlemanly analysis comes in the book, The Women Who shaped Politics, by sky News presenter sophy ridge.

history has delivered its own delicious verdict. Mrs May became the longest-serving post-war home secretary and Britain’s second woman PM. Meanwhile, Laws was forced to resign after just 17 days after being exposed as a serial expenses cheat, had to repay more than £45,000 to taxpayers — and is no longer an MP.