House of Commons in chaos: UK heads for an elephant trap election

It seems Britain will fall into what Tony Blair described as Boris Johnson’s early election “elephant trap”.

The situation has become so toxic, relationships so poisoned, trust and loyalties so trampled by untrammeled ambition, that a cathartic election, maybe several cathartic elections and a referendum too, might pass before anything that looks like business as normal resumes — no matter how remote any memory of normal seems this morning.