A Very British Protest as Anger Boils Over at May's Brexit Dodge

Russell-Moyle tries to remove Parliament’s ceremonial mace to the dismay of House of Commons Speaker John Bercow.Source: Bloomberg
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It was all so calm, so British.

But when a Labour lawmaker picked up the mace in the House of Commons on Monday evening to protest Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to put off a Parliamentary defeat for her Brexit deal, he was making a statement with revolutionary echoes through more than 300 years of British history.