In an unlikely act of union,Robert Gascoyne-Cecil has visited Brighton to promote the view of a constitutional convention to save the UK The big tent that is Corbynite unusual politics was graced on the Brighton fringe on Monday by no less than Robert GascoyneCecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, or grandest of former Tory cabinet ministers. A self-confessed entryist” (he didn’t even pay £3),Salisbury (then merely Viscount Cranborne) was the man who establish together the 1999 deal with Tony Blair to leave 92 hereditary peers in the Lords. William Hague sacked him for it. He is now touring party conferences in equally dodgy company: Labours Peter Hain and John Denham. Their mission? To agitate for a constitutional convention to create a unusual Act of Union (possibly federalist) to prevent the UK falling apart in young David Cameron’s hands.
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Source: theguardian.com