May wins support - driven by sympathy

Washington

UK Prime Minister Theresa May's conference went wrong in ways she or no one could have imagined. But the good news for her is that likely successors also came out tarnished.

Mrs May's closing speech did succeed in winning activists in the hall back to her side, but their support was driven by sympathy. Video clips played across Europe and likely seen by Brexit negotiators in Brussels, showed her big moment overshadowed by a collapsing set after an intruder triggered a chronic cough that left her struggling to get words out.