Negotiations move to Kent…

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The renewed summit/renegotiation meeting is to be held at Leeds Castle, effectively on the road from London to Dover. A beautiful and historic building; which at around 800/900 years old will have resonances for some of those attempting to divine the solution to that age old potato, the notorious Irish Question.

W. C. Sellar, 1066 and All That:

“British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question”.

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