Muddled, half-arsed, this was up there with any of May’s more pointless statements“Let’s stick together,” said Boris Johnson, oblivious to the irony of threatening to sling 20 MPs out of his own party for doing what he had repeatedly done only months before. As impromptu statements outside Downing Street go,...

The prime minister wants an election because he wants to stay in post. He is not doing it to deliver what’s best for the UKEvery government since 2016 has been driven mad by Brexit’s central contradiction – that there is an economic price to pay for the UK to take...