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Ruthless Tories
Rachel Sylvester is right in her assessment that Theresa May is a zombie Prime Minister who cannot survive long (“May plummets to victory,” July). But her analysis that “the dilemma she failed to resolve about the Conservative Party will haunt it for a long time” misses the point about how the Tories have traditionally handled internal conflict and division: namely with ruthless precision and efficiency.