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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Brexit delay, terror in NZ, and a very expensive pigeon

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

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Theresa May, the Prime Minister, wrote to Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, asking for a delay of the date for Brexit. She had been wondering whether to solicit a third ‘meaningful vote’ before or after going off to the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. Heaps of money had been put aside to buy off the DUP and unreal talk had been launched about the Vienna Convention providing a way out of the Irish backstop.

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