Parliament is in recess during a period that historians may come to describe as an impending national crisis.
The Government is busy with the Spending Review and preparations for Brexit. One can almost hear the gnashing of teeth in Chiantishire, Cornwall or wherever else civil service colleagues spend their summer holidays.
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