For the second time in a week, Michael Gove’s understudy was sent out with nothing new to say
It’s been such a year of horrors that it’s become easy to lose track of just how weird things are. But Thursday was one of those days when we slipped a little further through the looking-glass.
Only a year ago many opposition MPs were still hoping for a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU on the off-chance that the public might have changed their mind. Now those same MPs are the ones pleading for the government to just get a deal – any deal, however crap – to avoid a no-deal Brexit on 31 December. Their expectations have fallen that low.
