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Jack Kessler

OPINION - Want to buy a house? Pick your parents carefully

I don't know what a coup d'état in Britain would look like. Presumably, the belligerents would simultaneously seize Whitehall/Parliament, the BBC and GCHQ amongst other institutions.

But my intuition says that Michael Gove will somehow be involved. Not that the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities would initiate a violent overthrow of the government, merely that he'd swiftly make himself indispensable in the new administration. He always does.

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