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A rival broadcaster (OK, the BBC) asked the remaining Tory candidates six very basic questions about how they would deliver Brexit, and what their contingencies were if their plans flopped. Each candidate, or more probably their advisers, supplied what in a very loose...
sense could be described as "answers". But if I were grading these exam papers, I am afraid I would give an "F' for fail to each of them - although @michaelgove and @RoryStewartUK at least have a little bit more imagination than the rest with, respectively, their suggested...
"union guarantee" and "Brexit Assembly". I pray to goodness no one on the other side of the Channel is actually taking an interest in this leadership contest, because our politics will seem even more ridiculous than the England team did under Steve McClaren...
We just have to hope and pray that each of them has a secret cunning plan. Desperate times. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
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