"Do you know what some people call us?” Theresa May famously demanded of her fellow Conservatives in 2002. “The nasty party.” Shedding the perception of “nasty” has been May’s long-term political ambition. From the moment she became Prime Minister, she has shown a clear desire to restore the appeal of the Tories by casting them as a party with a beating heart at the service of all.
But the Prime Minister’s project took a serious hit late last year after Pakistan’s Supreme Court quashed a death sentence against Asia Bibi, a Catholic mother convicted of blasphemy.
