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NEW: People's Vote descends into splits and infighting over:

- strategy of how to achieve a second referendum
- when to table PV amendment
- campaign tactics and events
- whether PV should run the Remain campaign
- antics of its senior MPs and officials

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Labour MPs increasingly turning against a People's Vote

- shadow ministers tell Corbyn they will not support PV
- several MPs agreed at PLP last night
- Lucy Powell: “We’ve passed peak People’s Vote... PV has put off colleagues, pushing people away"

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People's Vote row over when to table the second ref amendment.

Philip Lee and Sarah Wollaston determined to proceed on Tuesday despite PV officials and other MPs telling them to delay.

They say going now is "stupid" and PV has "lost control of its MPs" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
Chuka/Lee/Wollaston have been pushing to table the amendment at the earliest opportunity.

They were opposed by PV officials at a meeting in which "voices were raised".

PV strategists fear they will lose vote and want to "knock out" no-deal and EEA first: buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
Another split is over whether PV should run the Remain campaign.

Some PV MPs and staff think they should.

But others say: “There is absolutely no way the Blairite faction can be allowed to run the campaign at a second referendum. We’d lose 70-30” buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
More internal PV rows over

- Philip Lee's 'hubristic' campaign launch
- PV Labour MPs' public blunder last week
- attacks on Labour and Corbyn
- Chuka's centrist party plans
- Blair on broadcast
- Roland Rudd doing Today prog live from Davos buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/th…
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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

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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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