‘ If Boris succeeds her, she won’t go down in history as our worst ever Prime Minister’

Theresa May’s resignation after less than three years as Prime Minister was the result of her irresponsible decision to pander to the extremes of her own party.

Her address from the steps of Downing Street spoke of “compromise”, but too often during her premiership she bent over backwards to appease the hardline Eurosceptics who seized control of the Conservative Party.

And so now, at a time of constitutional crisis and when the country needs a period of stability, we are instead to be faced with the unedifying sight of a Tory leadership contest.

Yet a change of leadership will not break the impasse. MPS have already spoken, and there is no majority for