I’VE just spent an half an hour tonight waiting for Theresa May to give a straight answer to a simple question.

I waited in vain.

I have a strong feeling, but hope I’m wrong, that Andrew Neil will come up against the same tactic being utilised by all Theresa’s opponents in his remaining interviews this week.

Theresa seems to believe if she avoids a direct answer by repeating ad nauseam her key phrases, then we will be bludgeoned into accepting what she says as the Gospel Truth.

The trouble with the tactic of ‘Preaching the Gospel’ is that there are many others with their own soap boxes and their own versions of ‘The Gospel’. Whom do we believe?

It would be amazing if each question was truly answered and not avoided at all costs. Will this happen? Some hopes.

When is a CAP not a CAP? Again May avoided a direct answer. ‘We will consult’, should she not have already consulted?

Many Pensioners, of all political persuasions, have not got a clue as how much she will take out of their pockets to pay for this U-turn.

Strong and stable? I think not.

May’s attempts to cast her opponents as a ‘coalition of chaos’ has come back to bite her. I suspect she bows to pressure from her own party, her opponents and the media.

Weak and wobbly is far better epithet.

Ewen Simpson Whatcroft