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May’s summer delusion: the recess won’t solve anything

21 July 2018

9:00 AM

21 July 2018

9:00 AM

The summer holidays couldn’t come soon enough for Theresa May. So desperate was she to get MPs away from Westminster that she wanted to send them home early. Normally, prime ministers would do almost anything to avoid headlines such as ‘MPs vote to go to the beach’. But in these circumstances, Downing Street decided that was the lesser of two evils.

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