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Nick Boles’s plan is certainly crazy. But it just might work

19 January 2019

9:00 AM

19 January 2019

9:00 AM

At first, it seems fanciful. A backbench MP, Nick Boles, proposes to take power away from the government and place it in the hands of an alternative opposition. Not a party or a faction, but the Liaison Committee, the 36 MPs who chair other committees. They’d call the shots.

Can one backbencher usurp power in this way? It’s ambitious.

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