It is weeks since the prime minister posed for the US Vogue photographer Annie Leibovitz in January. The first was that the letter triggering article 50 will be sent next week, on 29 March, starting the two-year countdown to Brexit. The second was that there really won’t be a general election before this parliament’s five-year term expires in 2020. There is something rather admirable about a prime minister rejecting this kind of easy opportunism. Yet avoiding an election also allows her to keep her absolute discretion over the nature of the Brexit outcome.

Source: The Guardian March 20, 2017 20:15 UTC