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.@theresa_may conveyed no sense at Cabinet whether her ministers will be allowed to vote with their consciences tomorrow on @oletwinofficial's indicative votes, to find solution to Brexit mess. She has been warned by @AnneMilton that there could be 20 resignations from...
junior ranks of government to add to the three yesterday, if she does not allow free vote. Ministerial sources tell me that the four in the cabinet, @DavidGauke @AmberRuddHR Greg Clark and @DavidMundellDCT, who are seen as the leaders of the anti-no-deal rebels, won't resign...
There is a view among the ministers prepared to fight to the political death to prevent a no-deal Brexit that the quartet known as the Gaukward Squad are better off for now staying in the Cabinet, because if they quit the balance of the Cabinet would shift definitively towards...
supporters of a no deal Brexit. My hunch would be that if the PM, on advice of chief whip, stands firm and refuses free vote, there would probably be "only" 10 resignations. That is what ministers tell me to expect. But even 10, on top of yesterday's three, creates major...
headache for the PM. Not easy to find 13 new ministers from the backbench pool, given the numbers there who would never ever want a junior ministerial job, or are wholly unsuitable. Being prime minister doesn't get easier for @theresa_may
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Labour has not tabled a motion for today’s indicative votes on a way through the Brexit mess. That implies the thrust of its effort will be to secure support for the Kyle/Wilson call for a “confirmatory” referendum (a referendum on any Brexit deal approved...
by parliament). The big question is whether Labour will whip or compel its MPs to vote again for the Clarke motion that mandates the government to keep the UK in the customs union, because it will be aware of what I argued yesterday, that if Clarke emerges as the winner...
that would provide the best backdrop for @theresa_may to have one last shot at having her own deal approved, tomorrow (for more on her plans, see itv.com/news/2019-03-3…). But the most interesting question would be how Labour whips and votes on the motion laid...
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The motion for MPs tomorrow "approves Withdrawal Agreement" if passed - but weirdly does not represent a meaningful vote on Brexit. It would lock in 22 May as Brexit day, rather than 12 April. But is hugely confusing - because unless and until the EU Withdrawal Act is reformed...
the UK would still leave the EU without a deal. Some would say this is nuts
When I say EU Withdrawal Act "reformed", I mean amended. It's been a long week and I am losing the will to live
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Commons chatter is that in promising Tory Brexiters that if they vote for her deal their dreams come true and they get @BorisJohnson or @DominicRaab as next PM, @theresa_may has given new incentive to Labour's soft Brexiters and Tory Remainers not to vote for her deal, because...
if Johnson or Raab is in charge of negotiations on future relationship with EU, which are more important some would say than the divorce talks, that relationship will be uber Brexity. So in wooing one important constituency to get her deal over the line, she has alienated...
another important constituency. I am still very unclear how she gets her deal over the line
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