government and our prime minister ina travel this government and our prime minister in a very, very kafkary much hope that the first are, probably of the next parliament, will be to abolish the fixed—term parliaments act. the second... the second point is this. it is just to issue a word of caution about the danger that comes with mixing up the difficult and complicated unresolved issue of brexit with a potential general election. a general election is, by its very nature, general. we are allupforgrabs. is, by its very nature, general. we are all up for grabs. and all policies in the manifesto are also therefore debate. but this has been, brexit, the most divisive, poisonous, difficult issue of our life. and if we go into a general election with an unresolved brexit there is no way that a clear answer on brexit can be said to emerge from that process. and, quite possibly, because of the nature of brexit and the way that it is pushing our entire post— victorian party system into near collapse, and we may have four way competitions in almost every constituency, we may find that it doesn't a