• Is this not somewhat meaningless though?

    Well, it's largely procedural, and given the general atmosphere of constant political disasters at the moment it's not much. However, I think it's still important to stop May's apparently intended autocratic style of 'governance', which smacks of insecure and incompetent control freakery. She needs to learn how to negotiate within her own party and understand that people like Clarke have strong arguments (I'm not trying to imply that I agree with them) that need a hearing, even if they ultimately don't end up being followed. If you try to suppress them, as she has been trying to do, something will end up festering and at some point the discontent will just spill out. Paradoxically, she's been undermining her own position by what she's been doing.

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