Brexit means Brexit, and we’re going to make a success of it,” doesn’t sound like the rallying call of a quiet “Remain” supporter, but Theresa May, who became Tory Prime Minister on Wednesday after her only remaining opponent Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the race, has repeated it over and over in interviews.

All the more odd then, that in the first speech inaugurating her national campaign in Birmingham on Monday 11 July, a national campaign that was over almost before it started, she should be touting German-style governance reforms. But that is what happened.