The Week  |  20th May /2017
THE CULT OF MAY
The British “like a warrior queen”, said A.N. Wilson in The Spectator. When Mrs Thatcher sent a task force to recapture the Falklands, “the bossyboots of Finchley plumbed the wells of mother worship and nanny reverence which lurks in the British unconscious”; she tapped into a tradition that reaches back to Queen Elizabeth I addressing the troops at Tilbury as the Spanish Armada entered the Channel. Now Theresa May is starting to emerge as a leader in the same mould. Certainly, the image of strength that the Tories have projected around the PM seems popular with the electorate, said Toby Helm in The Observer. In the former Labour stronghold of Dewsbury, in West Yorkshire, for instance, you can find plenty of voters willing to take a chance on May. “She is a strong woman and she will lead a strong government,” says one wavering lifelong Labour supporter.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Week 20th May /2017.