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Downing St silver lining for @theresa_may on relatively poor result for her: “One more vote than the PM got in the original leadership election”.
So they are saying it is a triumph to have polled one vote better than the actual leadership election when today she was not running against a real person, just not her
More from Downing St: “172 Labour MPs have previously voted no confidence in Corbyn”. But he’s not PM facing the most important negotiations for the UK in decades
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MPs vote to further bind @theresa_may's hands on Brexit, if she loses her deal next week - by 308 to 297. Historic
The main impact is to transfer significant power to MPs to determine what kind of Brexit or no-Brexit the UK will have - because as and when @theresa_may loses vote on her Brexit plan next week, she will have to report to parliament in three working days on...
...what comes next. This will take the form of a motion she lays before the Commons. And this motion would be amendable, as I understand it. So at that point MPs could - at last, some would say - vote on what form of Brexit or no-Brexit (viz a referendum) they would support. Huge
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This from @DLidington in his written statement on backstop is gripping: "there would be no regulatory divergence between GB and NI in areas covered by the backstop in any scenario in which it applied". It implies whole UK and not just Northern Ireland...
...would be rule taker from Brussels in many areas of single market for as long as backstop is in effect. Maybe it will provide modest reassurance to DUP MPs (though I very much doubt that). However it will reinforce the opposition to her deal from Tory Brexiters
Or to use the tendentious language of @BorisJohnson and @Jacob_Rees_Mogg, @theresa_may's solution to the backstop crisis is to propose more vassalage for the whole UK. Can't see them being impressed
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Today is another biggish Brexit day, even though all said yesterday that today’s business motion opening BIG Brexit debate is not amendable - because bunch of Tory rebels, led by former attorney general Dominic Grieve (normally sensible), are trying to amend it (see attached)...
...to force the PM to come up with (amendable) NEW Brexit plan within three days if (as expected) MPs vote down her Brexit plan next Tuesday. This is attempt by them to stop her running down clock and forcing no-deal Brexit on the nation. Not at all clear how Grieve got...
...amendment on order paper. So now it is down to the the all-powerful speaker to decide whether it can be voted on. If speaker rules the amendment ultra vires or out of order, many of the Tory rebels and Labour might then choose to vote against today’s business motion, I am...
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