Peter Hitchens not only wonderfully expresses sentiments I endorse about the forthcoming festival of lies, evasions and disinformation but highlights the likely real cause of Mrs May's U-turn: the hidden scandal of Tory mis-spending at the last election which may result in 20 bye-elections:
hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/04/...did-she-call-it.html
As Mr Hitchens notes, the outcome is by no means likely to improve the Tory majority and may slash it rather savagely.