Separately, Liaison Committee of Senior MPs write publicly to the PM calling for MPs to have more of a role in scrutiny of what Govt is doing
Meeting btw Rees Mogg and Brady likely sooner rather than later - could there be a deal even before Speaker has to make a decision on whether to call the vote that Govt could lose ?
One compromise suggested by rebels wd be for minister to put forward a draft law with a date for it to come into force at some point in the future ...gives a window where MPs can debate + they say could still be done under ‘made affirmative’ Statutory Instrument
We are rather in the weeds here! But it’s a way where unhappy backbenchers would have more of an actual say on Covid laws being passed very fast, without ministers having to go through normal, lengthy process to make laws
Not clear yet if ministers will go for it - but it’s one way through the impasse - right now Govt relying on Speaker not allowing a vote to spare their blushes
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