I’M surprised to discover that I’m not at all surprised!

Theresa May’s election campaign was arrogant and lacking clear policies, understanding and warmth.

That she will resign is a given, I hope, but the possible candidates to take her place fill me with dull despair. So much for my high hopes of last summer.

However I take comfort from the possibility that the hard Brexit she was intent on following may well now be ditched. It has to be the business men and women of all political stripe on both sides of the water who organise our departure, and a hung Parliament should better ensure this.

Yet I feel sorry for Mrs May, a bizarre mixture of u-turns and inflexibility. It’s genuinely a tragedy for an honest and talented woman that her hitherto decent political career should end with a whimper in the humiliating spotlight of national ineptitude.

It’s a vivid illustration of the Peter Principle. She was promoted above her level of incompetence. It’s as well she goes, and quickly.

ALLAN FRISWELL Keighley Road Cowling