The compromise that saved her passport destroyed her political brand.

Evidence

I think it is here that the demise of her public image truly began. From a legal perspective, what she did was perfectly understandable, but it affected the root of her popularity. The affair undermined her image as a figure driven by a persistent unwillingness to compromise, including her habit of saying what she believed, the very quality for which she was so admired. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1649