In keeping with her refrain that she is “getting on with the job”, Theresa May will mark her first year in Downing Street this Thursday not with a lavish party but by focusing on the issue on which her potentially short premiership will be judged: the battle for Brexit. On that day the Department for Exiting the European Union will publish the government’s Repeal Bill — the legislation that will guide Britain out of the EU.

May’s own reflections on her turbulent time at the top will come in a speech on Tuesday at an event where reforms designed to help self-employed people will be published. Aides say the prime minister wants to be “bold not timid” in government and will not “sit back and