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UK prime minister Boris Johnson with the Downing Street cat, Larry. 'Johnson is relentlessly divisive and scornful of the half of the country that disagrees with him.' (Photo: Number 10)

Brexit snap election might plumb further chaos

Tuesday (3 September) 2019 will go down as one of the most dramatic days in British parliamentary history.

A new prime minister met the House of Commons, and witnessed his parliamentary majority of one seat wiped out as Conservative MP Philip Lee crossed the floor to the Liberal Democrats.

Then in the evening parliament voted to take temporary control of the order of business of the House (the usual pattern is that the governmen...

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Lewis Baston is a writer on politics and elections and former director of research for the Electoral Reform Society.

UK prime minister Boris Johnson with the Downing Street cat, Larry. 'Johnson is relentlessly divisive and scornful of the half of the country that disagrees with him.' (Photo: Number 10)

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Lewis Baston is a writer on politics and elections and former director of research for the Electoral Reform Society.

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