An alternative PM wouldn’t stand a chance of defeating Johnson’s toxic politics – but a council of leaders could
When he abuses the memory of Jo Cox to widen division, we honour her by sticking together. And a council of national unity, or whatever it chose to call itself, is the way to do just that
Listening to what he said, or more accurately what he didn’t say, the mind-bendingly byzantine complexities of Brexit were reduced to one impishly simple little thought.
They must get rid of him. They need to remove him, and they need to do so within days.
The identity of the “him” speaks, as he refuses to, for itself. He wouldn’t apologise to Jo Cox’s friends for deriding their natural fears that he will incite another slogan-spouting maniac to murder. He blamed it all on a misunderstanding. Which sounded startlingly like humbug.
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