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There are Boris Johnson once said no disasters only opportunities and opportunities for fresh

disasters. Words that could have been written for the week he's just had.

Good evening.

Amber Rudd has resigned from the Cabinet and the Conservative Party, saying she no longer

believes that getting a Brexit deal is the government's main objective. In a fiery resignation

letter.

The Conservative Parliament ordered by the government has taken effect amid extraordinary scenes

in the House of Commons. Some opposition MPs held up protest signs and directed cries

of shame on you at Conservatives. The Prorogation Procedure followed Boris Johnson's sixth

Commons defeat in a week, as MPs rejected for a second time his attempt to hold an early

general election.

Opposition.

Tonight at 10 demands to recall Parliament. After Scotland's highest court declares the

five-week suspension to be unlawful. The ruling could have huge ramifications at Westminster

and beyond.

So what then is a disaster amidst all this noise? In my view, one thing, it is the destruction

of relationships between a party leader and those people he needs. If you're running

a single campaign heading for a single date with a single goal in the way Dominic Cummings

ran the vote leave campaign, the truth is you don't really need friends and allies. Indeed

famously, he fell out with most of the other Eurosceptics he'd been prominent for decades.

If you're running a parliamentary party, if you're fighting a general election, that's

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