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Neither May or Gove plan to invoke Article 50 before the end of 2016. Nor do they plan to bring forward the next general election date from 2020. (Photo: Yiannis Theologos Michellis)

Analysis

The week of the Tory long knives

Rarely has a week left the political landscape littered with so many corpses. Since last week’s fateful Brexit vote, Westminster has turned into Game of Thrones meets House of Cards.

Michael Gove’s dramatic destruction of Boris Johnson’s prime ministerial ambitions on Thursday was the final act in a week of brutal assassinations. David Cameron, George Osborne, and now Johnson, now find themselves all played out.

For the opposition Labour party, whose leader Jeremy Corbyn made it t...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Neither May or Gove plan to invoke Article 50 before the end of 2016. Nor do they plan to bring forward the next general election date from 2020. (Photo: Yiannis Theologos Michellis)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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