Nobody envies Theresa May, but some have come to admire her.

Nobody envies Theresa May, but some have come to admire her. She has shown remarkable powers of persistence in a very hostile environment. The draft of the deal under which she is proposing that Britain will leave the European Union appears to have almost no friends. Yet that may not, in the end, stop some MPs from voting for it. They may feel they have no other options left. Will there be enough of them to defeat her? It is universally agreed she does not yet have majority support in Parliament, and even the Democratic Unionist Party, which has a “confidence and supply” arrangement with the government, is threatening to desert her.

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