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THERESA MAY undermined senior ministers yesterday by announcing that she will personally oversee their departments.
The Prime Minister is to chair three new Cabinet committees — on the economy and industrial strategy, exiting the European Union and international trade, and social reform.
The decision will cause tension within the government if Ms May, who is renowned for her attention to detail in policy, attempts to micromanage major departments.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look