May v Leadsom? We just need someone to lead us out of this mess | Michael White

Not since the existential crisis of 1940 has a Conservative leadership battle carried so much potential for good or ill

It’s barely a week since I argued here that Brexit Britain is facing its gravest collective crisis since the second world war because the problems confronting us all are like multiple organ failure after a car crash: economic and political, social and constitutional. Paramedics must first stop the bleeding and stabilise the traumatised patient.

How have they been doing these past 10 days? Not very well. Try as I may to see positive developments since the result shocked both leave and remain camps, I can’t find much. Markets have steadied after their usual featherbrained panic, but that’s a respite, not a cure.

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