The home secretary's confident stride along Downing Street was broken this morning after the heel of her shoe became jammed in a pavement crack en route to a cabinet meeting. She resorted to moving the rougue shoe in order to prise it out of the ground before continuing on her way smiling sheepishly to a camp of photgraphers across the steet. Mrs May is renowned for her stylish footwear, but after the shoe malfucntion she may be considering a pair of flat soles.