May could have won support for a Brexit deal, but failed to reach out | Martin Kettle

The prime minister, frantically touring the country, faces defeat because she never tried to bring opposition MPs on board

Theresa May’s Brexit tour of Britain – she was in Scotland today promoting her EU deal – speaks simultaneously to her strengths and her weaknesses as a politician. The strengths are often too lightly dismissed, and not just by those who primly disdain her as simply an evil Tory. But it is May’s judgmental weaknesses that still shape the political landscape as she battles to carve out a Commons majority on 11 December.

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