It had to end in tears. The men in grey suits have finally visited Mrs May and told her she has to relinquish her position after the coming European vote this week. The Chief Executioner, Sir Graham Brady, did it all in a very Tory manner.
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Hold on a moment. Can this really be true? Is Mrs May’s only new initiative, to do for a fourth time, what’s she’s already done three times before - without success?
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You will not have noticed but I have been away. An African wedding. A safari in Zambia and a bit of lake dwelling in Malawi. You should try it.
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She was almost normal. For the very first time Mrs May seemed relaxed as she spoke to us from a Chequer’s sofa. The glass of water propped to her left reassured us that we were not in the hands of some intoxicated die hard
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Today The Daily Telegraph screams,’Brexit Betrayal’ across its front page. But who is betraying whom? It’s all so predictable. Mrs May is trapped.
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How many times is it now? How many hollow messages have recently been delivered from No.10 with the borrowed authority of that icon’s illustrious setting? “Inside or outside? Let’s do it inside this evening.
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This is not how a crisis should be. A crisis should shake the earth, rattle the plates, break a few window panes, scare the cat.
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It must have been quite a scene in the 1922 Committee last night with Mrs May offering her head in return for your voting for her deal. I would like to say this was a noble gesture. Unfortunately, it was an act of desperation.
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Last night parliament voted to take control of the Brexit process from Mrs May and what is left of her government. I checked your voting record and was disappointed to see that you continue to deny reality
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What a sorry spectacle! Yesterday, our Prime Minister scampered over to Brussels and administered her cardboard projection of leadership before an audience
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Did you see the looks of silent bewilderment and sullen horror on the faces of the opposition when Mrs May stood at the despatch box yesterday? And the looks of glum embarrassment from the front bench around her?
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The thunderbolt came out of the blue - or rather out of the black storm currently enveloping Westminster. Was it Zeus? Was it Mars? Or was it merely the diminutive figure of Common’s Speaker, John Bercow, physically most unlike Zeus but giving a passable vocal impression
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Mrs May’s castle collapsed on Tuesday. In a pincer attack from the enemy without and the enemy within, her revamped Withdrawal Treaty fell in a cloud of dust onto the streets of Westminster.
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Yesterday morning Mr Cox checked his codpiece and found that nothing had changed. The keystone had been removed from the tottering edifice of Mrs May’s castle. Yesterday evening her fortress finally collapsed in a cloud of dust and debris.
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Eighteen days to go! We have had the Brady Amendment, the Cooper-Boles Amendment, the Spelman Amendment, the Rachael Reeves Amendment, the Grieve Amendment - enough amendments to amend
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Boris Johnson has had his hair cut. I saw him on Wednesday with a standard issue short back and sides. He was talking about police and knife crime but it was his hair that sent the real message. No longer the eccentric and hirsute buffoonery of yore.
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I hope you won’t mind my being rather intimate with you but I’d like to share a dream I had last night. In fact I had two. I suppose they were both a reaction to the current lull in proceedings
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There are no troops gathering in Boulogne, no landing craft on our beeches, no sign of an aerial armada heading for our shores. And yet our country is in its biggest crisis since the Second World War. It is a war without warfare because it is all home made.
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We are approaching a series of climactic events in this extraordinary period in our post-war history. Everything is about to change. From her endless and fruitless voyages of discovery around the EU, Mrs May will report
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The tremors have been coming for the last few years. Now the first cracks have appeared in the political firmament beneath your feet. Please do not think that what is happening in the Labour Party is not for you.
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