May’s Sad Legacy Is Bigger Than Brexit

Theresa May will be remembered as the prime minister who couldn’t deliver Brexit. But she also leaves her successor another testing legacy: her failure to confront what she has called the U.K.’s “burning injustices.”

Britain is a rich country by any definition, but it scores badly on a range of social measures. Income inequality is higher than in many comparable nations, and economic mobility is lower. Pockets of deep poverty persist. There are pronounced regional disparities in education and health, and “deaths of despair” have been rising.