Its poll rating is 40 per cent or so, the economy is growing, and an election isn’t due until 2022. A sense of perspective is essential – for all the Government’s weaknesses.
But Major’s Back to Basics disaster shows how badly wrong the attempt to provide moral leadership can go.
If the standard is as it now appears to be, May will have difficulty finding enough male Ministers to replace all those she will be required to sack.
Plus: What it was like being gay and a Tory – and being sexually assaulted in the “Brief Encounter” – during the vanished world of the 1990s.
If a Minister is guilty of bullying, harrassment or abuse, he should go. But behaviour that falls short of these should not require resignation.
“We need to talk about as a party what we look like after Brexit, and I hope that veterans’ care and being a party of defence means something.”
The Defence Secretary calls on the Labour leader to reject his youth wing’s position.
The Defence Secretary adds that Blair “has got to get over it”.
“Although the sacrifice was enormous, it was fought in a good cause…to defend the freedom that we enjoy today.”