It has been announced in the last hour that Parliament prorogues at the close of business today. With all the talk of political gridlock, to shut down Parliament today must mean Boris Johnson has a plan.
In the last few weeks, essentially since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, politics in the UK has never moved so fast…. That fast in fact that by the time I’ve typed this article, it will likely be out of date.
Commons Speaker John Bercow is at the centre of another row, this time purportedly calling Andrea Leadsom a ‘Stupid Woman’.
Theresa May’s enforcement of a three-line whip on a key vote relating to the Windrush scandal has done the business.