When Theresa May told a joke at her own expense at a reception of Tory MPs held to celebrate Boris Johnson’s landslide election victory in December 2019, the assembled audience breathed a sigh of relief.
Many had expected the freshly re-elected May to be a thorn in the side of her successor during the ensuing parliamentary term.
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