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6 February 2017

Daniel Hannan’s week: saucy thoughts on gender, and why Marine Le Pen is left-wing

Busy, busy, busy.

By Jonn Elledge

Both the best and the worst thing about writing this column is that there’s just so much damned material. Daniel Hannan has done what precious few of us will ever managed, and achieved his life’s ambition, of getting Britain to vote to leave the European Union. Many of us, in such a situation, would no doubt take a well-earned break.

Not our Daniel, though. He’s still tweeting, writing, agitating to show that Brexit Is Good and that any bad things that may come from it are definitely Not His Fault (and are indeed the fault of the left). What’s more, he’s still MEP for the South East of England – still bravely taking a salary from a job he’s campaigned to abolish. Such hard work and self-sacrifice can bring a tear to the eye.

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