*** Senior Tories drawing up a plan to let MPs vote for their favoured Brexit outcome ***
A thread (sorry) about one plan being cooked up by influential MPs desperate to avoid a “No Deal” Brexit should May’s deal be voted down.
Their answer - a Brexit Options Vote.
A thread (sorry) about one plan being cooked up by influential MPs desperate to avoid a “No Deal” Brexit should May’s deal be voted down.
Their answer - a Brexit Options Vote.
There's been an “air of unreality”, says one Tory, because so much has focused on what May can get past her cabinet, rather than what would get through parliament.
If The Deal is voted down, how is a No Deal avoided given there’s no time left?
That’s the essay question here.
If The Deal is voted down, how is a No Deal avoided given there’s no time left?
That’s the essay question here.
One idea is now being explored with Commons clerks...
If Deal is voted down, parliament should be presented with all the workable options (Norway/Canada/People’s Vote?) to test what there is a majority for. What theatre!
The model is the options vote Blair used on Lords reform.
If Deal is voted down, parliament should be presented with all the workable options (Norway/Canada/People’s Vote?) to test what there is a majority for. What theatre!
The model is the options vote Blair used on Lords reform.
There are obvious pitfalls. What if there’s a majority for no option?
True, but so say advocates: “Parliament could vote every option down, but I see no alternative to that.”
True, but so say advocates: “Parliament could vote every option down, but I see no alternative to that.”
Also...
The real focus now senior figures are putting on the parliamentary end feels to me like a sign that many lost it with No10 this week.
There's been a shift - the Commons equivalent of a “You don’t know what you’re doing” chant faced by a failing football boss. Big week.
The real focus now senior figures are putting on the parliamentary end feels to me like a sign that many lost it with No10 this week.
There's been a shift - the Commons equivalent of a “You don’t know what you’re doing” chant faced by a failing football boss. Big week.
