Theresa May is no ditherer

Pundits have sprung to the defence of the prime minister who has been criticised for wasting time.

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Theresa May: slow and steady, but not muddled
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Theresa May's critics were always going to pounce, says Peter Oborne in the Daily Mail. Last week's resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain's ambassador to the EU, was the cue to do so. Walking out "in a huff", Rogers accused May of "muddled thinking" on Brexit. This week, The Economist, which has a "long and wretched history" of political misjudgements, ran a cover story with the tagline, "Theresa Maybe: Britain's indecisive premier".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.