The combination of a small majority, radical intent, a flow of power one way to Cabinet Ministers and another to key aides requires adjustment.
But her decision and other recent ones also raise the question of whether Ministers really hold sway in their own departments.
He had a magnetic hold over a powerful woman, and was murdered by a member of the Bullingdon Club. We trust that no precedent has been set.
Officials, advisers and Ministers will always need external expertise: what we need are conservative-minded experts.
It’s predominately a tight-knit group of former staffers who’ve worked together before. No change there. But it has a more provincial and state school feel.
To date, she has seen foreign affairs through the prism of domestic security rather than that of intervention abroad.
The new Government can’t realistically aim to target its programme on everyone. To govern is to choose.
Bishops’ hearts may be with Labour but, in education and elsewhere, they’ve learned to work with the Conservatives.
It shows an admirable devotion to duty. But whether what was sustainable as Home Secretary will be so as Prime Minister is another matter.
“The Chinese could use their role to build weaknesses into computer systems which will allow them to shut down Britain’s energy production at will.”
The critical consensus seems to be that there are more practical, less grandiose alternatives which can come online quicker, and without exposing our energy infrastructure to foreign powers.
Her conservatism will likely combine undisguised contempt for the cultural left with a neo-statist economic policy.
The sale of ARM Holdings to Softbank is a curtain-raiser for May’s new plan – over which he has charge.
We provide a brief introduction to the new Prime Minister’s first six advisers.
It was the closeness of the family in Joe’s era that led critics to calling them ‘the clique’ – a toast that we still make today in their honour.