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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Brexit party launches, Assange is arrested – and Notre Dame burns

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

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Although the latest date for Brexit had been postponed by the European Council until Halloween, 31 October, the government had to confront the prospect of holding elections to the European parliament on 23 May if parliament would not agree to Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement before then. Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith said that May should go before those elections, which ‘would be a disaster for the country.

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