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Amid the uncertainty of a hung parliament, what can hardly be overstated about the 2017 general election result is just how much of a disaster it represents for Theresa May. Having called an unnecessary election believing herself in a position of barely-precedented strength - despite repeatedly vowing no snap election, with her spokesman reiterating the point less than a month...

Entitled 'Forward, Together: Our Plan for a Stronger Britain and a Prosperous Future', less of a wish than a command, and superficially attempting to shift the focus away from domestic policy and back towards Brexit, much of the Conservative Party manifesto released last Thursday seemed brazenly wrong or patently false. There was the scrapping of free school lunches for infants; another...

As Theresa May decided after all to call a snap general election, which will now take place in just seven weeks' time on 8 June, too few commentators called May out for what amounts to a brazen and deceitful display of political opportunism. Rather than questioning the strength of her leadership or calling her a liar, they simply threw...