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Timorous Theresa May remains weak, wobbly and utterly clueless.

The Prime Minister’s first TV interview of 2018 underlined personal survival is her sole goal. May isn’t a leader fizzing with energy and ideas. She’s confused and compromised.

On all the big issues she combines a fatal inability to grasp their magnitude combined with a tendency to make them even worse.

By quitting the European single market and customs union she’s abandoning the very “frictionless and tariff-free” trade with Britain’s most important economic neighbours she professes to seek.

May is ignorant or in denial about the peril she’s plunged the NHS into this winter as a result of her party’s under-funding and social care cuts.

Falling wages and squeezed living standards are disasters for families which she has intensified.

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If she paid for her own train tickets, the PM might appreciate why East Coast passengers are furious the Tories let Virgin and Stagecoach avoid handing over £2billion promised to the public purse.

How humiliating that she continues to allow demented lying racist sexual predator Donald Trump lead her by the hand , or self-pitying Tory hate-spewing slimeball Toby Young sit on a university body despite the Education Department exaggerating his qualifications.

May hasn’t changed, admitting she still supports bloodsports while killing off hopes of restoring fox-hunting.

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Reshuffling Cabinet to keep second-raters sweet is as useful as moving the Titanic’s deckchairs – with a similar outcome for the Tory ship of doom.

Britain’s crying out for ideas, answers and a fresh direction May is incapable of delivering. On the BBC’s Marr Show she was all complacency and excuses.

She is a political pygmy in treacherous times and survives because Tory enemies can’t decide who should replace her.

In a year when Brexit will define our nation for decades, to be lumbered with May is a disaster.

She’s out of touch yet untouchable. People will suffer for her vanity and a Tory desire to cling to power, whatever the price for others.