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I’ve covered some big Brexit nights this year but this feels the biggest since May’s deal first went down. it’s marked the end of one Tory party. For decades it’s tolerated both sides of the Europe civil war. No longer. The Brexiters are in complete control. It’s their party now.
No longer a broad church, the Tory Party is now a narrower sect. Theresa May never adopted such draconian policies because fundamentally she cared about it, it was dear to her. I’m not sure the same can be said for Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings.
The cost of their being purer is being smaller.
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Lewis Goodall
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The election is being deferred because the anti no dealers, suddenly and unexpectedly working together harmoniously, now have a stable parliamentary majority to do with as they like. Cummings’ expulsion of Tories has solidified it. It suits them to keep the govt trapped.
Democratically, constitutionally that is pretty questionable. But it’s happened because of his own constitutional indiscretion, his hurriedness to prorogue. Without that, none of this would have happened. The premiership he for so long coveted, is for now, a perfect prison.
Cummings, the alleged great mastermind, forgot that other people can act unpredictably too.
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Bercow ruling that Queen's Consent is not required for the Benn bill.
This is important. Removes one of primary hopes of the government to block it.
To be clear Queen's Consent and Royal Assent are different things:

Queen's Consent: more esoteric, required when it's deemed legislation affects the royal preogative. Is occasionally denied.

Royal Assent: royal authorisation given at end of legislative process. Never denied.
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It would be odd, to say the least, for Johnson’s opponents to have spent two months lambasting him as an unelected prime minister, accusing him of launching a coup and then when he asks for for an election, refusing to grant it.
There are plenty of MPs who are rejecting an election completely and just trying to secure another extension and see what happens when we get there. Johnson is right about something: extensions like that are becoming increasingly futile.
If an election is guaranteed on October 14th and legislature cannot tolerate govt policy (and won’t replace it with another) it would be constitutionally proper to have an election.
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