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It is not at all obvious that @theresa_may is helping rather than hurting her successor - @BorisJohnson or @Jeremy_Hunt - by putting down motion tonight for parliament to rise on 25 July, day after Johnson or Hunt will enter Downing St. That would give new PM no opportunity to...
show any momentum on Brexit, ie rules out possible vote on the kind of Brexit new PM would want or on anything else. It will create impression of a PM and government cutting and running for the summer. All rather odd. One former minister told me it was outrageous ...
for decision to be taken now for House to rise so soon after new PM chosen and new cabinet constituted. This ex minister said it looked like May wanted to sabotage her successor
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