It was perhaps fitting that this week's Commons debates on Brexit were interrupted by a protest by 12 semi-naked people, mps tried hard to ignore the invaders even as several glued their bottoms against the glass barrier above the chamber. In line with a surreal atmosphere of repetitious argument, the protest was not even about Brexit, but climate change. This was far from the high point of the week's drama. That came a day later when Theresa May emerged from a seven-hour cabinet meeting to announce that, to break the Brexit logjam, she would now try to agree a plan with the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Even more important, she added that, if this effort failed, she would bind herself to implement whatever Brexit proposal mps agreed upon in their next round of voting.
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