It’s become a truism in Westminster that the entire point of Boris Johnson’s premiership is to engineer an election in which he would frame as a battle between the people and Parliament.
And, as wearying as it to hear it over and over again, the prime minister’s statement made clear that framing the opposition as an anti-Brexit blob is indeed his strategy.
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