British PM's fresh start goes stale in lackluster reshuffle

If Theresa May, the British prime minister, intended to use this week's cabinet reshuffle to assert her authority and inject new energy into her administration, the result has been to further diminish her standing and make it less likely that her government will be able to deliver the Brexit deal it wants.

The Daily Mail was one of the few newspapers to defend her. It said in its editorial: "She may not yet be exactly strong and stable - but this reshuffle shows she's determined to get on with the job of governing Britain."

The UK leader seemed to want to make a show of Monday's reshuffle: Each minister would walk along Downing Street past the journalists and television cameras before they entered No. 10 and found out whether the leader had decided if they were to keep their jobs.