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A PM ready to say goodbye to a whisker of a majority is a PM who might be ready to call an election... what’s the real game here? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
It’s not inevitable, depends on what laws, if any the rebels manage to pass this week and other complications, but it is not impossible that an election is called by end of this week, and is one of the different options being considered by Number 10
A long way to go before any votes are actually cast, not least before we see the text and impact of what actually could be agreed in Parliament - but clear that Johnson absolutely willing to up the ante
Irony alert - a suggestion that May might deselect the Brexiteer rebels in a coupon election was made back then informally by Brandon Lewis to Eurosceptic horror and dismissed, inc by him, as not remotely a runner ....
It may be rather an eventful week....
