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Mind your language

Envelope

22 April 2017

9:00 AM

22 April 2017

9:00 AM

One can push many things — a pen, one’s luck or (up) daisies.

But the MP Dominic Raab told the Daily Telegraph last week that Theresa May and Boris Johnson ‘are demonstrating courage in pushing the diplomatic envelope’. Since the most famous envelope recently enclosed Mrs May’s letter to Donald Tusk, this figure of speech might have obscured rather than illuminated his meaning.

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