Her government is taking water certainly. It is not certain if it will sink, nor when. But that it is not a normal functioning government is beyond all doubt. The appointment of Penny Mordant to fill Priti Patel’s vacant post makes sense if you like the idea of an even balance in the Cabinet between Leave and Remain. But the problem with that is this. In the most important political even in our peacetime history, a government equally split into opposite positions on all the fundamental details and expectations is one which cannot function.
It becomes, in the trending words of a rather clever commentator, a fake government. In the end fakes fail.