Rees-Mogg breaks broken news to a horrified house

Surreal is real as Boris Johnson ditches date with supergroup of MPs and sends out Commons leader to demand election. Ceci n’est pas une pipe. This is not a sketch. Just as Magritte played with traditional conventions of words, images and meaning, so modern politics works in reverse. The surreal has become fully integrated back into the real. So much so, it’s almost impossible to distinguish between the two. If a train were to emerge from one of the fireplaces inside Westminster pala