The strange rehabilitation of Theresa May

The former PM has become a stick with which to beat the populist rabble.

It is hard to see anything in her career that deserves the plaudits she is currently getting.

Her new book, The Abuse of Power , has drawn praise from unlikely quarters .

May became PM in 2016 , following the auto-defenestration of David Cameron .

Perhaps, given the current state of her party, she should have called her memoir The Last Fighting Tory . Gawain Towler is a commentator, former director of communications for the Brexit Party and is consulting for Reform UK. Picture by: Getty. To enquire about republishing spiked’s content, a right to reply or to request a correction, please contact the managing editor, Viv Regan..