[dingaling]

> May-driven Conservative manifesto pledge

May-driven in this instance perhaps but Intelligence-agency steered. Next PM will be under the same incessant pressure.

Doesn't really matter which captain is on the bridge, they don't have their hand on the tiller.

[pas]

That sounds like bullshit. The Parliament is very much on this, you don't need to try to explain it by invoking all-powerful spooks behind the curtains.