Conservative: UK Tories Have a Problem Called Theresa

British Prime Minister Theresa May endured “an extended and excruciating fiasco” during the Conservative Party’s conference this week, says Dominic Green at The Weekly Standard. First it came out that part of her speech was plagiarized from “The West Wing.” Plagued by a cold, she was waylaid by a coughing fit — but not before a professional prankster bounded onstage and presented her with the official form for firing an employee. This, suggests Green, “may be the defining image of her premiereship.” Indeed, she “is trapped within a never-ending impersonation of a leader . . . an amateur turned into a laughingstock by a professional comic.” It was “the most disastrous Conservative conference speech in living memory” and is a metaphor for how the Conservatives, “the default party of British government, are falling apart.”