Politics is in suspended animation. The only proceedings in parliament are the tens of thousands of mourners moving through Westminster Hall as the Queen lies in state.
Party politics was always going to pause after the monarch’s death. But what the planning could not have anticipated was the moment at which the politics would halt.

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