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Robert Peston
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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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It is crystal clear from the magnitude of this defeat for @theresa_may that even if the EU had tweaked the backstop in the Withdrawal Agreement, she would not have won the vote. So the EU27 leaders will now have serious doubts about whether it is remotely possible to amend...
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And here is the reason why @hilarybennmp has withdrawn his amendment to the meaningful-vote motion. It is the presentation of a bill by @NickBoles that - if he succeeds in seizing control of the business of the Commons for a day, after...
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Here is the @AWMurrison amendment that is the loyalist Brexiters’ attempt to keep @theresa_may’s deal alive. It would given only conditional approval to her plan, stipulating that the deal would only come into force if the EU changes the Withdrawal Agreement...
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