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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: More Brexit talks, more French protests and less horse racing

16 February 2019

9:00 AM

16 February 2019

9:00 AM

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Theresa May, the Prime Minister, returned from a trip to Brussels and Dublin and hurried to the Commons to ask for more time to do something or other about the Irish backstop. The much-kicked Brexit can was expected to land in the parliamentary road again on 27 February, though the government envisaged no ‘meaningful vote’ until March.

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