Boris Johnson can be forgiven for feeling worried when Theresa May took to her feet in the Commons just now. The former prime minister started with the words:
‘I intend to rebel…’.
Fortunately for her successor, she then added:
‘…against all of those who don’t want to deliver Brexit.’
"I don't like referendums but I think if you have one, then you have to abide by it" says former Prime Minister, Theresa May. #BrexitDeal
May said she intended to back the deal because it came down to a simple question:
‘when we voted to trigger Article 50, did we really mean it? When the two main parties…stood on manifestos to deliver Brexit, did we really mean it? I think there can only be one answer to that: yes, we did mean it…because if this parliament did not mean it it is guilty of the most egregious con trick on the British people.’
In her 1954 essay ‘The English Aristocracy’, the author Nancy Mitford popularised the descriptions ‘U’, i.e. upper-class or aristocratic, and ‘non-U’, to denote household terms. Although she did not coin the phrase (that credit belongs to the otherwise forgotten linguist Alan S.C. Ross), she brought it to wider public attention. When her friends John Betjeman
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