After the weekend break welcome back to the coalition of chaos
It shouldn’t be able to go on like this but it probably will
The cartoon just about sums it up. Time is running out under the Brexit extraction process and it is hard to say with any certainty who will be the senior members of government at Christmas.
TMay is now a diminished figure and in spite of the apparent turmoil within her party she simply does not have the authority to try to reshuffle her cabinet.
One side of the Tory party calls for the Chancellor to be sacked while others want Foreign Secretary out. The fault lines that were exposed during John Major’s 1992-1997 government are still there and seem wider than ever.
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Meanwhile Labour, which looked finished after losing the Copeland by-election earlier in the year, has now got its act together and can smell blood.
On top of this the Tories have put back the committee stage of what was called the Great Repeal Bill because of fears of rebellions, splits and defeats.
Even when it gets through the Commons the battles will be resumed in the Lords where the numbers situation is even worse for the Tories.
On the face of it it shouldn’t be able to go on like this but most likely it will.