Commons update: that which cannot be mentioned is not mentioned | John Crace

With parliament a bloodless theatre of ennui, the real war was on over at the Foreign Office

The phoney war continues. With Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn having signed a non-aggression pact – any mention of Brexit in effect has been banned while the Tories and Labour go through the motions of pointless cross-party talks – prime minister’s questions has become an echo chamber. A place where that thing that cannot be mentioned is not mentioned.

So PMQs is now just a bloodless theatre of the mediocre. The Labour leader asks a few desultory questions about something he has read in the paper that morning and the prime minister makes little effort to answer them.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2J8HTqB