Theresa May can still shape Brexit. But she may not have the skills | Martin Kettle

If she continues to seek a hard exit from the EU, the prime minister will split her party and be remembered as a fleeting, failed leader

When a political party has existed for as long as Britain’s Conservatives, nothing is entirely without precedent. This even goes for the dire situation in which Theresa May finds herself after she threw away her majority in a snap election before setting out to govern with a divided party in a hung parliament.

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