In my beginning is my end. It is always a political leader’s greatest strength that turns into their ultimate weakness. Theresa May was a blank sheet on to which all the factions of her party could project their own beliefs and now she has become a black hole that is sucking the life out of the government. Incapable of making a decision, she looks, Janus-like, in two directions at once, so simultaneously gets nowhere and pleases no one at all.

On Brexit, the most important decision of her premiership, the prime minister seems to have no idea what relationship she wants the UK to have with the EU after leaving it. Downing Street rules out membership of “the customs union” and “a customs union” while