When you think about any prime minister, let alone this one, visiting the site of the first deployment of chemical weapons in Europe since the Second World War, your first thought is probably not: “I bet she does a fist bump.”Yet Theresa May’s walkabout in Salisbury took on a bizarre air yesterday afternoon as she clutched a bunch of flowers and bumped the crowd, part Princess Royal, part Ali G. (Nick Timothy, the PM’s former chief of staff, knows which long-serving No10 special adviser can take credit for teaching May, tweeting: “You can’t work in the same building as the great Sheridan Westlake and not know how to do a good fist bump.”)The prime minister could perhaps be forgiven a brief moment to…

Source: The Times March 16, 2018 09:00 UTC