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Game on as ALAN SIMPSON proposes an unorthodox problem-tackling perspective
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You know a government is in trouble when its MPs start attacking each other with metaphors and acronyms.

Gone are the days when MPs jousted with swords, when the lines dividing each side of the House were drawn just more than “2 sword-widths apart.”

This wouldn’t be much help today, not because MPs now have ribbons to hang their swords on in the members’ cloakroom, but because the duelling is all on the Tories’ own benches. The source of the conflict is, of course, Brexit.

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