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Boris Johnson's backbench problem

3 June 2020

6:59 PM

3 June 2020

6:59 PM

After spending Tuesday afternoon queuing in a socially distanced conga line across the parliamentary estate, many MPs found themselves in a bad mood. Even Conservative MPs who backed the government’s plan to change to a system of socially distanced physical voting were complaining. Speaking to Coffee House afterwards, Tory MPs complained the process was ‘humiliating’, a ‘clusterf–k’ and most kindly ‘a work in progress’.

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