MATTHEW PARRIS | ANALYSIS
may 25 2019, 12:00am, the times
Theresa May resigns: What makes her tick? Self‑pity and lack of empathy
Too late, too late. All too late. The tears were moving, the spectacle pitiful, and all who saw it will have felt momentarily touched. But even amid the self-pity, Theresa May’s strange, tin-eared effrontery came through. The cheek of it; to compare her search for “compromise” to the valour of Sir Nicholas Winton, kindertransport, and his efforts to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis! It sounded almost cheap but I don’t think that’s the explanation. I think it was yet another example of Mrs May’s complete lack of self-awareness.
During the 2017 general election the BBC’s Newsnight asked me to make a short film —Theresa May: a profile. I ended it with my honest conclusion: “Who is Theresa May? . . . Times.
