Is the game up for Theresa May? Here's what leadership theory tells us

For better or worse, we can also try to assess May's leadership skills on what we can see and hear

Theresa May famously promised “strong and stable leadership” during the 2017 general election campaign. It was never really clear what that soundbite meant, despite its repetition ad nauseam. And we still don’t know a great deal about May’s leadership practice. The details that allow us to really analyse prime ministerial leadership tend to come out in biographies and memoirs, only after a national leader has stepped down from the stage.

But while we wait to find out what it’s really like inside May’s government, pressure is mounting on her. Is she up to the job of leader?

While we don’t