The world is watching as Britain falls to pieces
It’s a dizzying maelstrom of rebel Tory MPs quitting the party, Farage cronies agreeing to team up only for no-deal, Lib Dems squaring up to be the ‘not Jeremy Corbyn party’ and, of course, Johnson’s own antics
Downing Street had one aim when Boris Johnson moved in: get him to win a general election with a majority and then have carte blanche to get on with pushing either for no deal or for new Brexit negotiations – all with a fresh mandate and without the irritation of DUP demands. That mandate would also allow the progress of the Cummings vision of reduced civil-service intervention and the accumulation of increased power ...
