'Conservative Party engaged in 'sensible and pragmatic' planning for snap election, deputy chairman admits'

A headline I did not expect to see, in the Daily Telegraph this afternoon. It reads like a parody, but it is no longer possible to write parodies or satire.

Conservative Party engaged in 'sensible and pragmatic' planning for snap election, deputy chairman admits

The lead story in the paper this morning was that half the Tory MPs and ten cabinet ministers wanted to leave the EU quickly without a deal.