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Laura Kuenssberg
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1. @Tobias_Ellwood calling for free vote on no deal next Weds, if, as many assume, PM's deal goes down on Tuesday - @RoryStewartUK 's also told @BBCAnyQuestions he thinks that will come to pass - battle over the whip just one of many btw now and them
2. Several ministers have said privately they reckon PM has no choice but to let MP s vote as they wish, but other govt sources recon it's inconceivable to imagine governing party not taking a position and instructing MP s on such a huge issue
3. Big mystery, even among some of those who know PM well, is how she would vote given that she's fought for so long to keep option of walking away on the table (whether EU believed it or not is a different Q)
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Laura Kuenssberg
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1. Two sources suggest May hoping to agree a time limit on finding alternative arrangements to the backstop - so it remains, but 2 sides commit to finding a different way of doing it within a time limit
2. (Don't all scream at once) EU rejected similar idea before as the 'flip side of the coin' of trying to put an end date on the backstop
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Laura Kuenssberg
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Yup heard this this afternoon - denied strongly by No 10 sources, and fair to say the Remain minister front would go absolutely ballistic prob with immediate resignations - but... stranger things have happened
Also heard tonight whispers that 'no deal' and 'delay' votes could both happen on Weds, instead of over two days.. seems pretty risky to me for No 10 to mess with timetable at all given they were part of PM's serious public assurances
None of the speculation about next week prevents there being (wait for it) MV 3 - yes, another vote, another go at getting the PM's deal thro but after the EU summit - scale of defeat (if it is a defeat next week) would be influential in terms of determining next steps
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Laura Kuenssberg
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1. Interesting - MPs who believe in Common Market 2.0 as Brexit compromise feel positive after seeing Corbyn this afternoon
2. A labour move to that position would anger referendum campaigners but it does have quite widespread, if not decisive, support in House (with usual caveats about how fluid everything is)
3. Last, fear of that kind of compromise poss getting thro parly is exactly why some Brexiteer ministers are pushing hard for deal to get thro next week or else Brexit becomes ‘soft, softer or meltdown’
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