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We’re on to Round 2 of #IndicativeVotes today so I’ve updated my explainer #IV2
🗳 What are #Brexit Indicative Votes?
🤔 How will the process work?
💡What ideas have been tabled?
⏳ What might happen next?
🚨 Hopefully it’s worth a couple of minutes ☕️ 🚆 🚌
We’re on to Round 2 of #IndicativeVotes today so I’ve updated my explainer #IV2
🗳 What are #Brexit Indicative Votes?
🤔 How will the process work?
💡What ideas have been tabled?
⏳ What might happen next?
🚨 Hopefully it’s worth a couple of minutes ☕️ 🚆 🚌
Last week MPs debated alternatives to the Prime Minister’s #Brexit plan.
This happened because MPs backed an idea by Conservative MP & former Minister, Sir Oliver Letwin, to give control of Commons business to backbench MPs so they could put forward their visions for #Brexit
This happened because MPs backed an idea by Conservative MP & former Minister, Sir Oliver Letwin, to give control of Commons business to backbench MPs so they could put forward their visions for #Brexit
Parliamentary procedure is full of quirks, but giving backbench MPs control of the Commons in this way isn’t the norm.
MPs chose to disapply a Commons rule - Standing Order 14(1) - which says that the Government usually (largely) controls what business is debated in the House.
MPs chose to disapply a Commons rule - Standing Order 14(1) - which says that the Government usually (largely) controls what business is debated in the House.
