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Jo Maugham QC
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Not actually what @BarryGardiner said. He said "The appropriate time to table a motion of no confidence in the Govt is when the Govt loses its key legislation and no longer commands a majority in the House of Commons" and wriggled when asked for a commitment it would be next week
You can hear it for yourself here at 1:52:10 and on bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
The important point, of course, is this: the debate currently before Parliament is not on legislation. It is on whether Parliament approves a political agreement the Prime Minister has reached with the EU.
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Jo Maugham QC
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Theresa May is using the Welsh devolution referendum (the outcome of which was delivered despite the fact the result was very close) to illustrate why Parliament should vote for her deal. But is that a good analogy? THREAD
In 1997 Labour introduced the Referendums (Scotland & Wales) Bill for the advisory referendums which eventually led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly (publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cm…). /1
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Could we, as John Major is once again urging, revoke and reconsider? THREAD.
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The point of a "flexible" constitution is that it is responsive to underlying political reality and fits around core principles like Parliamentary supremacy. Its strength is that it cannot be 'gamed' by a constitutional player.

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However the problem is that our approach to the relationship between an Executive that (we assume) will deliver no deal rather than risk no Brexit and a Parliament that (we learned yesterday) will not contemplate no deal is tangled in the weeds of Parliamentary convention.
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