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Brexit latest: PM meeting with senior aides in No10 now to plot a way through this week’s carnage. I’m told it’s most likely she will decide to change tomorrow’s vote from a meaningful one to a provisional one - ie her deal, plus Cox’s changes (1)
If she can produce a Commons majority for any detailed deal on the backstop (not just the Brady fudge), then the EU just might buckle and concede to it at the last minute at next week’s EU Council on March 21/22 (2)
All this, I’m told, was discussed by the PM with Jean-Claude Juncker last night. No10 consider it a win that Juncker even agreed to keep technical negotiations going between officials by the end of the call, so bad is the impasse now (3)
Will Letwin/Cooper/Boles accept another 10 day can kick? No. Expect them to amend tomorrow’s vote to enforce an A50 extension vote on Weds or Thurs, whether PM wins or loses. But whatever the rebels demand, nothing can be signed off by the EU Council until it meets next week (4)
So, Britain could effectively have a twin track Government for the next 10 days - May’s, and Cooper/Letwin’s in the wings - with the EU Council to pick between them, over a late night dinner in Brussels on Thursday week, just 7 days before Brexit. What a cliffhanger (5)
Worth noting there are several ways May can make tomorrow’s MV provisional. One is to press ahead with it to fulfil her promise to the Commons, but accept a patsy backbench amendment to strap on Cox (pardon the expression). Another is to hold a second vote straight after (6)
