Ken Clarke ensures a quiet leaving do after article 50 fireworks | John Crace

Tory former minister was the best part of a funereal debate that left arch-leaver John Redwood on the verge of joyful tears In hindsight, allocating two days to a debate on a 137-word bill drawn up at five minutes’ notice after the supreme court ruling last week might seem to have been at least a day and a half too long. Not because the bill to trigger article 50 was of no importance, but because it gave MPs licence to rehash old speeches and fight battles that had already been long since