Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast.

I'm Laura Prendergast and on today's episode we'll be discussing Theresa May's big question for the Tory party.

We'll also be looking at the campaign to ban trail hunting on National Trust properties

and finally we'll be discussing whether or not the British are hopeless at doing lunch.

Parliament returns next week and Theresa May will have to face the music. And the question for the

Conservative Party will be this. Can you forgive her? In her cover piece this week, Isabel Hardman

looks at whether they will be able to. She joins me now, along with Fraser Nelson, our editor.

So Isabel, what do you think the most likely answer will be?

Well, I think they've decided at least that they can stand her for maybe,

what the moment they're saying, for the next two years until the Brexit negotiations conclude.

And certainly, number 10 has been making the effort to try to calm everyone down in terms of wooing backbenchers and keeping the 1922 committee on site.

We've been absolutely crucial in securing Theresa May as Prime Minister until she decides or the party decides for her to go in the long run rather than in the next few weeks.

But I think this is all based on everything going fine externally.

And government is so much about the things that happen to you

as much as it is the plans that you make.

And if they have a crisis, it would be very interesting to see how well Theresa make

and weather it, because a lot of it will be about the decisions she makes in response to that crisis.

Fraser, do you think she even wants to be Prime Minister at this point?

I suspect that, you know, when she was off for that three-week walking holiday of hers,

a large part of it will have wanted is to stay in that shalley and not come back.

I can't imagine it's a very enjoyable job.

You hear some reports that she doesn't stay stay number 10 as much as she used to. And I have to say this, a lesser politician would have

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