She moved to that address in July 2016 with but one task, to clean up a mess not of her making. She failed, and on Friday she paid the price. Mrs. May, a vicar’s daughter and lifelong Conservative stalwart, is exiting with all the dignity and reserve she has maintained throughout the tortuous process. The obligatory tributes poured in, recognizing that Mrs. May deserved at the least to be credited with extraordinary stoicism through all the setbacks, backstabbing and name-calling. Yet it is worth pausing and asking whether the sorry state of affairs over Brexit is entirely Mrs. May’s fault, or whether she was given an impossible mission.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2019 21:33 UTC