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Theresa May Refuses to Dance Like Steve Bannon
Britain’s prime minister has made a bold pitch for the political center ground. Her party would be wise to listen.
Theresa May wants to drag British politics away from America-style culture wars.
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It wasn’t hard for Theresa May to do better than her Conservative Party conference speech of last year. A fit of coughing, a falling backdrop and a gag from the floor made it one of the most disastrous political performances in memory and entirely overshadowed the content.
But Britain’s dancing prime minister did a lot more than just clear a low bar at this year’s follow-up in Birmingham. She came across as the one thing politics seems to lack at the moment, and not just in Britain: a grown-up.