How Labour Learned to Love the Flag

How Labour learned to love the flag

“Speak-ah!” “Speak-ah!” Twice the cry went out as Lindsay Hoyle and his liveried entourage slow-marched the quarter-turn through Central Lobby. The policemen doffed their caps, tourists hushed their tones and the vaulted hall room smelled of cold stone. So, I thought on Monday 1 September, the first day of the new parliamentary term, this is British democracy’s constitutional alarm call after its summer slumber. It felt neither especially effici…

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