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Here is what is causing Brexiter Tory MPs to tear their hair out. Alberto Costa was yesterday dismissed from the government for putting down an amendment to protect the rights and status of EU migrants that is government policy and was accepted by the government. Today George...
Eustice resigned to protect what was the PM’s policy (till Tuesday) that a no-deal Brexit must be kept on the table. But 25 government ministers who rebelled against the Cabinet’s policy, some very publicly, that we must leave the EU on 29 March all kept their jobs. The...
parliamentary Conservative Party is almost as angry and divided as the parliamentary Labour Party. Almost. Welcome to the madhouse that is political Britain
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Joe Murphy
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Only in the mad world of May's Brexit ....

In a week that Cabinet unity collapsed before our eyes without any minister being sacked ...

... a lowly PPS has been made to resign on a technicality

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Nice backbencher @AlbertoCostaMP has been given the boot for putting down an amendment calling on the PM to seek a separate treaty on EU citizens' rights as an insurance against no-deal.

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Costa's proposal does not breach collective responsibility (although everyone will assume that the PM is opposed to it now)

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Why have I changed my mind since the 2016 EU Referendum and why it is wrong to continue to support Brexit?
Nothing has convinced me otherwise.
Let the people have the final say
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The country is divided and some of the reasons many of us who voted Leave have been laid bare: immigration, lack of respect, fear for your job and squeeze on public services.
#PeoplesVote #RemainerNow #tory #labour #libdems #brexit
Trust me, sovereignty was way, way down the list!
We lashed out upsetting the apple cart and gave the government a bloody nose and like many got joy at watching David Cameron lose his job.
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