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Government by parliament works when a party or coalition of parties can command a majority of MPs to pass laws. None of this applies today in Brexit Britain. A fortnight before the UK is due to Brexit, this country still has no agreed plan on how to do it. Politics used to be called the art of the compromise. People are much more strongly committed to their view on the EU than they are to any political party. That goes for MPs as well. A canny leader, like Wilson over the EEC in 1975, won't call a referendum unless they can be pretty sure of the likely outcome. But he gambled on membership of the EU and lost. Today the European Research Group has organised a party within a party and has repeatedly voted against the withdrawal deal painfully negotiated by its leader. In both the Labour and Conservative parties they are the ones calling the shots.

Democrats really want to stop the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, says Ann Coulter, author of 'Resistance Is Futile!' #Tucker FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political…