British politics is approaching the most tumultuous nine months in living memory. But after the last nine months, during which there were eight cabinet resignations, three significant parliamentary defeats and five poisonings on British soil allegedly by a foreign power, first it needs a holiday. Then, from mid August, the British public will finally discover whether Brexit still means Brexit, whether Theresa May is indeed the Japanese knotweed of prime ministers (clinging on against attempts to remove her), whether hard Brexiteers control Mrs May and whether Labour can muddle through in its current guise, despite internal contradictions and antisemitism allegations. In the latest sign that Britain is returning to the 1970s, the essay question of the autumn will be who runs the country. Here