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Gone to Wales for the weekend to escape but can’t stop thinking about the last five days. There have been some big Brexit weeks but I don’t think they compare to this last one. We’ve witnessed the genesis of something entirely new: government by opposition.
It is constitutionally novel, if not deeply problematic (possibly outrageous) but it arose from a prime minister playing equally liberally with our constitution, a series of moves which have, inadvertedntly, trapped him in the perfect prison of 10 Downing St.
The expulsion of the Tories both created and revealed: it created a new oppositional majority in Parliament. It revealed that the Conservative Party has completed its slow transformation. The end of the Tory civil war has finally come- via aggressive purification.
Whatever happens, it will enter and emerge from the next election a much changed force. Boris Johnson might not, in the end, much enjoy leading it.
He removed any remaining manoeuvrability room he may have had. He left it in a ditch. It could well prove a pivotal moment.
He removed any remaining manoeuvrability room he may have had. He left it in a ditch. It could well prove a pivotal moment.
Perhaps most incredibly, we end the week with Boris Johnson much closer to leaving office and Jeremy Corbyn much closer to obtaining it.
Who knows what next week will bring? Either way, I’m going for a rump of Welsh lamb and then a lie down. See you girly swots on Monday. @SkyNews the only place to be.
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