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A(nother) Leadership Race

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What Happened in the Commons on Wednesday Night?

The fallout of this vote on fracking, which had been proposed by the Labour Party and actually wasn't really a vote on fracking at all. What ended up boiling down to was it sounds like almost like fisticuffs between conservatives as they were going through the bit where they vote the voting lobbies in the comments. In the end, last day of a row, all that mattered was that was feel the heat of the chaos. The straw that broke the cameras back, I just think a lot of MPs were just aghast. You know, with Boris Johnson, the moment if his government's collapse was when he couldn't any longer credibly say that he was running a functioning government.

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