After grand dinners at Chequers, the UK prime ministers’ countryside retreat, Theresa May often used to ask her driver to take her 45 minutes across the Buckinghamshire countryside to her home in Maidenhead, rather than staying overnight.
Even as prime minister, May maintained a devotion to her constituency which sometimes baffled aides but encapsulated the contradictions at the heart of one of Britain’s most successful but hard-to-define…