Theresa May

June 2016: as the EU referendum tears the Conservative Party apart and Boris Johnson and Michael Gove jostle for the leadership, the quiet figure of Theresa May emerges to become Britain's second female prime minister. 

Christopher Jackson offers an unusually empathetic study of a misunderstood politician and the turbulent era she came to define. Drawing on history, poetry and philosophy, he examines how leadership shapes the electorate and how far chance, rather than design, governs political life. Part biography, part meditation on power and Brexit-era Britain, this is a portrait that treats writing about politics as literature.