Monday 18 September 2017

Tory redefinition

Jacob Rees-Mogg's intervention in the latest Trumpish rejection of expert advice by a government minister suggests a new form of words to get round Commons restrictions on unparliamentary language. Instead of accusing a fellow member of lying, and thus attracting the wrath of Mr Speaker, an MP could suggest that he or she had "had a romantic vision".


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