persuade paid up members of the Conservative Party to vote for her despite the fact that she supported the ‘Remain’ camp in last month’s referendum.
To reassure those who suspected she would be half-hearted about negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union, she announced categorically: “Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it.”
At the very moment she stood up to speak, the team backing her rival, Andrea Leadsom, was gathering in a house in Cowley Street, close to Parliament, to plan how to move her leadership campaign on after a bad weekend dominated by Ms Leadsom’s grossly misjudged comment in which she implied that she was better qualified to be prime minister because she has children, whereas Ms May has not.