The Times
Amid all the hysteria it’s worth remembering that there is nothing unscrupulous in honoring the referendum result
Westminster always has its share of Sturm und Drang, but the chaos of the past week has been downright extraordinary. One MP compares the experience to a soap opera whose desperate writers are throwing a series of increasingly implausible plotlines at the screen. Certainly the emergence of Philip Hammond as a spunky backbench insurgent suggests a glaring disregard for convincing character development.
This is a time, in other words, of heavy metal politics – and the volume is only going up. Today alone we have another showdown in the Commons; the fallout from Amber Rudd’s dramatic resignation; talk swirling of Boris Johnson defying parliament, being dragged before the courts or even vacating No 10 rather than demand a Brexit extension.
Yet amid the clashing and…
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