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School’s out but still homework to do

02 August 2018 / David Greene
Issue: 7804 / Categories: Opinion , Brexit
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David Greene shares his end of term Brexit summertime reflections

In 1970 Mungo Jerry sang in a summer anthem* of the optimism of the summertime when the weather was hot. Two years later Alice Cooper gave a rather more anarchic view of the summer break**. The government, more in the Alice Cooper style, sought an early break from school last month suggesting entering the recess a week early to avoid the constant hostility that many in the House of Commons wish to visit upon it and its new Brexit policy enshrined in the recently published white paper.

At the end of June the prime minister gained some respite as the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 received royal assent but as ever with Brexit this was not to last; largely because this is a battle of attrition and both sides are well armed with Theresa May apparently acting as a quasi mediator. For the profession, however, the messages from the Withdrawal Act, the white paper and the reaction to them are not

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