It seems that something of a nightmare is gripping the city of dreaming spires. Over at the Oxford Union – the supposed nursery of our nation’s leaders – the new Union president-elect is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Last month, George Abaraonye sparked outrage after appearing to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk. Then, on Saturday he took the rather unusual step of triggering a no-confidence vote in his own leadership. An unorthodox move to say the least…

Alumni had planned to launch a no-confidence motion against Abaraonye on Tuesday, so this manoeuvre appears to be a way of beating them to the punch. Perhaps Abaraonye had been reading up on John Major’s 1995 resignation, telling the ‘bastards’ to ‘put up or shut up’. The vote will take place in Oxford in three days’ ti

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