Theresa May, Borrowing from Labour, Vows to Extend Protections for Workers<br />Bale said that It is difficult to know where Nick Timothy ends and Theresa May begins, because Theresa May has never given anything much away,<br />But Mrs. May "has not overnight become a continental Christian Democrat," Mr. Bale added, noting<br />that "hers is maybe more the view that, economically, things have got a little out of kilter and that the vote for Brexit was a reflection of that." Stagnating wages among low earners and resentment at rising immigration were thought to be the principal driving force behind last year’s vote to leave the European Union.<br />By STEPHEN CASTLEMAY 15, 2017<br />LONDON — Since emerging as prime minister from the political wreckage of last year’s vote to quit the European Union, Theresa May<br />has told Britain’s voters little about what she believes, aside from stressing her desire for a clean break from the bloc.<br />On Monday Mrs. May promised that, if elected, her Conservative Party would extend protections for workers in the "gig economy," increase minimum pay levels<br />and ensure a year’s unpaid leave for those who care for a sick relative.<br />In one article published last year, he appealed to his party to "adopt a relentless focus on governing in the interests of ordinary, working people." Mrs. May, a clergyman’s daughter, has also stressed her desire to help the so-called JAMS — those "just about managing" to get by —<br />and presented herself as being more in tune with the values of provincial England than with those of its globalized capital city, London.<br />But with an election looming, Mrs. May is promoting some strikingly centrist social<br />and economic policies, reaching out across the political divide to traditional supporters of the opposition Labour Party, many of whose incomes were squeezed after the financial crash.
