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John Rentoul
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Need a PhD on the symbolic importance in British politics of chlorinated chicken
Basically, Corbyn's message is: we agree with you but chlorinated chicken
Corbyn has chlorinated chickened out of further talks (HT @GBPHS)
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John Rentoul
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John Rentoul
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I don't believe Johnson's opponents have the numbers: DUP and ChangeUK won't vote for an election
The minister quoted doesn't understand Fixed-term Parliaments Act: losing Q's Speech vote doesn't mean an election
But absolutely right that Johnson would be almost as much a zombie PM as May is now
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4/10 in John Clarke's Saturday Quiz in @theipaper (answers in the paper or here later)
I got 2, 4, 8 and 9.
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