Theresa May’s lucky to have avoided the scrutiny that there’d have been with a prolonged membership ballot
The decision of Andrea Leadsom to pull out of the race last Monday is making May’s initial period a whole lot easier. Instead of the 8 weeks long slog of hustings meetings, probing interviews and TV debates the new PM has managed to avoid the searching questions on policy that would have made life considerably harder when entering Number 10. Just remember the commitment on the Tories in Brussels moving to a different grouping that Cameron made in the 2005…