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💣 EXC: Dominic Grieve's bombshell new amendment to prevent a no-deal Brexit by letting a MINORITY of 300 MPs control Commons business and introduce legislation to extend Article 50

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🚨 The new amendment

- revoke Standing Order No14 giving govt business precedence
- allow a motion put by 300 MPs from 5 parties, including at least 10 Tory MPs, to stand as the first order of business
- introduce legislation to extend/revoke Article 50 buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/se…
The extraordinary plan being worked on by Dominic Grieve and leading Labour rebels allows a minority of MPs to take control of parliament

The requirement of MPs from 5 parties blocks the government from being able to keep control of Commons business buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/se…
Grieve meeting with rebel ringleaders on Monday to finalise the plan. MP involved says it's "cobblers" that it is undemocratic.

But parl source says it sees "centuries of procedure being overturned to suit an agenda that denies the referendum result" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/se…
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NEW: Theresa May's allies privately concede they are on course to lose the meaningful vote due 12 days from now. Senior Tories are gaming a second vote or another delay. Downing Street insider: “If we have to have the vote 30 times, we will"

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Theresa May promised cabinet she would seek the “unilateral ability to withdraw” from any backstop and guaranteed the UK would not be kept in “against our will”, according to two cabinet ministers who fear she is about to renege on that pledge: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/mi…
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Draft text of the Future Economic Partnership doing the rounds, leaving open the possibility of a Canada-style FTA. Colleagues suspect this will allow Dom Raab to climb down on his public statements on the backstop and claim victory... buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/mi…
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We are heading for an end state which is far away from Brexiteers' preferred destination of Canada-style regulatory divergence, No10 aides and allies of Leave Cabinet ministers now say: politico.eu/article/how-br…
Question for Brexiteers now is do they accept No10's plan for a close alignment deal and try to “fix” it afterward, or fight for the Brexit they want now? May has succeeded in getting some Leavers to back her: politico.eu/article/how-br…
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