The three numbers that measure Britain’s constitutional crisis

Here in a few numbers is the measure of the catastrophic mess we are in; caused by failing to resolve how, when and whether we are leaving the EU some 1,174 days after British people voted for Brexit.

MPs are being locked out of the Commons chamber for 34 days and nights, because the prime minister does not trust them not to thwart his plans to extract the UK from the EU ‘do or die’ on October 31.

That is an insult to our parliamentary democracy, some would say.

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Former Prime Minister Theresa May has rewarded 31 of her officials, fellow ministers and MPs. Gongs rank from MBEs to peerages.

Almost all have been given to those implicated in various ways in May’s failure to achieve the one task she had – to execute the referendum result.