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Thersesa May has been found out and the spell she cast over Britain has been broken.

She has lost the respect of many voters as well as her Conservative colleagues.

With Labour and leader Jeremy Corbyn gaining in the polls her arrogant decision to hold an election looks like it may backfire badly.

Mrs May is actually doing her best to throw away power. Even if she finds herself back in Downing Street on June 9 it will be a hollow victory.

Her authority has been irreparably damaged. She is so weak and wobbly that, no matter her majority, she will be a more feeble leader.

Mrs May shamefully rolled out the Tory tanks to fire cheap shots at Mr Corbyn. She wrongly accused him of blaming Britain for the appalling carnage at Manchester.

But I, probably like you, heard him pin responsibility on the Islamist suicide bomber. Her accusation stinks and sounds like a rattled Conservative leader nearly exploiting mass murder for Tory propaganda.

Stopping hate-filled extremists slaughtering young girls and parents at a pop concert is, alas, impossible when the devils need to be lucky only once.

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Now I can see why the PM does not want to discuss police cuts.

She has already given nearly 20,000 their marching orders and, two years ago, unwisely accused officers of “crying wolf” when a Manchester bobby warned community intelligence was drying up.

Putting troops on the streets was unBritish, a PR coup for Islamists and prompted alarm not reassurance.

If, as Home Secretary, she had not axed 1,337 firearms officers maybe, as PM, she could have left the soldiers in their barracks.

Her unwillingness to discuss the link between Britain’s foreign policy and the rise of ­barbarous, blood-soaked Islamism is also completely understandable.

Mrs May denies even the remotest connection between disastrous British expeditions and bloodshed on our streets

For she, unlike Mr Corbyn, voted for invasions of ­Afghanistan and Iraq and RAF bombings of Libya and Syria.

Experts say there is a link between Britain’s wars and terror. MI5’s former director general Eliza Manningham-Buller warned a generation was radicalised.

David Cameron has admitted as much so too, for a while, did Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

Even Mrs May herself once lectured on the need to understand what happens in the world.

But the vain PM, running as President May, is losing her grip. The winter fuel allowance grab and Dementia Tax are just the start.

This leader is driven by political survival and will never again seem impregnable simply because she is not very good and her policies damage Britain.