Theresa May muses on Liz Truss’s shelf life and Boris Johnson’s affairs as she nears the end of her time as an MP

Theresa May muses on Liz Truss’s shelf life and Boris Johnson’s affairs as she nears the end of her time as an MPoften appeared burdened by the pressures of office when in Number 10 Downing Street, which she left in tears in July 2019 after succumbing to the resignation demands ofAlmost five years later and with just six months left in her career as an MP – she is due to retire at the next election – May cut a far lighter figure this week at a lunch...

She jibed at Johnson, who helped to bring her down as prime minister, by musing over which section of the bookshop would stock his upcoming memoir. “Perhaps current affairs,” she said, emphasising the final word in a thinly-veiled swipe at her chief tormentor’s reputation as a Lothario. She wondered if she risked going down in history as the British prime minister who needed her hand held by Trump, and then warned against the type of populist politics of which the former, and possibly next, US president was the chief global espouser. “Populism divides,” she said, warning against its corrosion of politics and populism’s “threat from within” to democracy.

May said one of the highlights of her time in office was when she hosted in Number 10 a group of British cave divers who had been involved in the rescue of a group of children from a cave in Thailand in 2018. She said the toughest part was choosing to send Britain’s military forces into action, such as her decision to order air strikes on Syria.

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