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Tom Newton Dunn
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I’m told Fox, Williamson and Barclay plus half the whips office is curently in the No Lobby, voting AGAINST their own PM’s motion.
Confirmed: Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay voted AGAINST the PM's motion he had just spoken from the Despatch Box in favour of to close the debate. Go figure.
Wow. A total of eight Cabinet ministers (Steve Barclay, Alun Cairns, Liam Fox, Chris Grayling, Andrea Leadsom, Penny Mordaunt, Lis Truss and Gavin Williamson) plus 188 Tory MPs in total voted against PM's motion to delay Brexit - close to two thirds of all her MPs.
...and: the Chief Whip Julian Smith abstained. His deputy Chris Pincher also voted against the PM, with most of the senior whips. Hard to think of a more insulting blow to May's authority.
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Tom Newton Dunn
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Looks like Steve Barclay will resign next week if the deal falls at MV3 and PM applies for a longer delay. He makes it clear he won’t support that... so she’ll need a 4th Brexit Secretary.
Barclay’s words here also directly contradict No10 last night (and @DLidington this morning) who insisted the whole Cabinet have agreed to back PM’s two delay plan, despite the free vote.
And if Barclay goes, how can Cairns, Fox, Grayling, Leadsom, Mordaunt, Truss and Williamson stay on with any personal integrity intact, having also protested against the policy last night?
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Tom Newton Dunn
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Breaking: Govt defeated - Commons demands No Deal is taken off the table permanently; 312 v 308, majority of 4. This puts May in a massive bind.
Tory Brexiteer bid for a managed No Deal - the Malthouse Compromise - defeated by 374 v 164, a majority of 210.
It's "total carnage" in the division lobbies, one Tory MP says. Another: "Some who are not prepared to vote against the amended motion are just being allowed to go the pub".
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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)
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