Morning Gist: Cow Dead, FF reanimate, Blair whatever

Simon McGarr

Jul 7, 2016 — 1 min read

Cow Dead

UK army shot some cows. That’s it.

FF reanimate

Poll shows rise in support for FF. FG TDs seem to misdiagnosed the problem as not controlling cabinet sufficiently. In fact the problem for FG is insufficient votes at the last election, something they haven't come to terms with yet.

Blair whatever

As the Chilcot report was kind of long, it was much easier to report on it through the lens of the prepared reactions of the main party. So Tony Blair said he was sad about all the dead people but he was still totally right and that is the story done and dusted.

Simon Harris sits on a wicker chair as though it is made of thumbtacks and holds up a pint cc Number 10

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