After strutting the international stage for nine days, the PM is back to an economy bludgeoned by Brexit and a political class rocked by the most sordid of scandals, writes @clarnictheneweuropean.co.uk
"Even Johnson would struggle to paint Rayner, a working-class northerner with vowels as flat as the line on the PM’s Brexit deal’s life support machine, as a latte-supping Islington remainiac" theneweuropean.co.uk
Working-class voters in England's Midlands have reviled the Tories ever since the 1980s era of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But Brexit has replaced her as the defining issue. nyti.ms