After a brief respite, Brexit has come roaring back to life. Fans of full-spectrum grotesquery will not be disappointed
As the local and European parliament elections hove enticingly into view, you will likely find yourself moved by the Conservative party’s attempt to expand its electoral appeal beyond recent head-trauma victims. The Tories are keen to move past the notion that a vote for them is a vote in favour of a government with no pending legislation, at all, bar the one piece it can’t pass.
Fire up your thousand-yard stares, then, as Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, has apparently got a plan to fix that. In general, I try not to pay too much attention to Graham, who deliberately cultivates the air of a man who’d tell someone politely but firmly to move their car at a point-to-point – then nix their planning permission application if they didn’t. But how can we ignore his reported suggestion that Theresa May should bring the withdrawal agreement bill before the House, except with the backstop either stripped out or time-limited? That, Graham and others reckon, could command the elusive majority.
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