Don’t write off Theresa May. Like Margaret Thatcher, she can bounce back | Simon Jenkins

Unpopular. Enemies everywhere. The parallels with 1981 are uncanny. But if the prime minister keeps her nerve, she can buy time to see off any challenge
• Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist

She’s in trouble, big trouble. Westminster is alive with leaks of cabinet rows. Government policy is a shambles. The lobby is a cauldron of midsummer madness. The prime minister has lost her grip. She must go, by Christmas if not by the party conference. It’s only a matter of when, not if.

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