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![John Bercow has a selfie taken with a woman on Westminster Bridge, just before his last session as speaker on Thursday.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14129459_1200-1024x683.jpg)
![John Bercow during tonight's debate. It'll be one of the outgoing Speaker's final outings in the Chair.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14129455_1200-1024x723.jpg)
![December 12th: PM's date for election could allow him to force his Brexit deal through first](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14129451_1200-1024x577.jpg)
![Ministers leave after a Cabinet meeting. The narrative of the government becomes ever more difficult to discern.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14129448_1200-1024x683.jpg)
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![Countdown: Brexit deal simply resets the battle to start again on November 1st.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14129434_1200-1024x551.jpg)
This doesn’t get Brexit done. It creates a set of internally incompatible circumstances in which the battle starts again on November 1st, with a new cliff edge at the end of 2020.
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Amendments which do not change the legal document in the Brexit deal aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
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![The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wait to speak onstage as they attend a reception during their recent African tour.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14129411_1200-1024x683.jpg)
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![Both sides: False equivalence limits people's ability to address abuse.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14129397_1200-1024x683.jpg)
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