With the walking poles packed and the champagne running dry, the sun is starting to set on Theresa May’s honeymoon. While Britain bakes in an unexpected stream of hot weather, the Prime Minister must be pondering the chill that is lingering in the distance. The return to Brexit Britain may just be the most difficult mountain she has ever had to climb.
The cracks in the Tory Brexit plan have already been exposed. The Government has instructed the NHS to draw up plans that will see the closure of A&E departments and district hospitals across the country. Just as the Brexit brigade scrambled to distance itself from the £350m NHS funding pledge in the days after the referendum, the Government looks set to inflict further cuts.
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