Has May got her Mojo back?

“Dancing to a new beat: May declares an end to austerity” reads the front page of The Telegraph this morning. So how is it actually looking for May? Dancing Queen or Waterloo?

Labour really should be profiting off the back of a successful conference and the civil war in the Tory party – but recent polling shows that’s not actually the case.

The Tories meanwhile have come out of conference looking pretty good. May was expected to give another disastrous speech and be outshone by the Brexiteers at the fringe events. But Boris despite garnering huge crowds was fairly unremarkable and the star of the show actually might have been May herself. Considering last year’s omnishambles (the backdrop falling down, the coughing fit, the P45 stunt) and the prior year’s astoundingly tone deaf ‘citizens of nowhere speech’ hopes were understandably low. What she managed to deliver defied expectations with thorough policy, good intellectual grounding, reclaiming of the centre ground, and moments of genuine charm.

Although she addressed Brexit an appropriate amount she didn’t allow it to dominate and was able to focus on the domestic agenda – that’s something Labour did successfully last week, and May was right to do the same. It looks like the commentariat are having their faith restored in the Prime Minister.

This combined with Labour’s failure to capitalise in the polls off the back of a successful conference and shows May has emerged from a potentially perilous period.

Talks of a leadership contest are not going away anytime soon – the ever looming presence of Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid and now Dominic Raab on the side lines make her position precarious. But for the first time in months she looks like a functioning Prime Minister; one who is now better placed to tackle the crucial Brexit negotiation that lie ahead.

So has May got her mojo back? Yes, for now.