THE Palace of Westminster is one of the most depressing places on Earth at the moment. The only people in a good mood are swivel-eyed Brexiteers and fever-brained neo-Marxists. Everybody else is miserable: frustrated by the intellectual vacuum at the heart of the government and worried that Britain may be drifting to disaster. Michael Heseltine, a Tory grandee, laments that "we have effectively no government". Nicholas Boles, a former minister, says that Theresa May "constantly disappoints".
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