Amber Rudd favours a Norway plus model if Theresa May’s Brexit deal is defeated, saying that lower migration means that free movement is not such an issue

Amber Rudd thinks women in business or politics are often vulnerable to a “glass cliff”, which leaves them exposed in a leadership role and teetering on the edge at moments of crisis when the chance of failure is greatest.

As many alpha males carp from the sidelines having resigned from the cabinet, she has come back into the government to try to help a female leader avert a national disaster. The men at Westminster “seem to flounce out quite a lot”, she says. “Everyone is looking for someone to blame while the only one actually trying to sort it out is the prime minister . . . I certainly feel a particular support for Theresa May as a woman to a woman. The men think