Theresa May doesn't get angry – she gets to work. Like the rest of us, the former prime minister has doubts, ideas, emotions and ambitions, but for decades she kept them something of a secret. May managed to become leader of a nuclear-armed, permanent member of the UN Security Council without anyone seeming to know what she thought about anything outside of home affairs. That takes god-like reserves of self-restraint.
Yet there is one moment in her long parliamentary career that – at least for me – stands out from all others. It was a political rarity: she lost her temper in public. Not in a big way, of course. Even irate May is fairly reserved. But the fact that it happened, and the stunned reaction of the recipient, was absolutely delicious. And she was absolutely right to do so.
