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Jo Maugham QC
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Here is the text of the cross-party proposition on Revocation versus No Deal that has the maximum prospect of being supported by Parliament. It has just 'gone in'.
Here are its sponsors, who are about as cross party as you can get.
Here is a list of all of the present supporters of the proposition.
Here is the Prime Minister yesterday making to the House of Commons a promise that, in substance, is the same as this cross-party proposition (hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-0…).
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Jo Maugham QC
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Brief thread on the Government's apparent new plan to separate the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration and only put the former to a vote in the Commons. THREAD
Would the Speaker allow it? Given that it is the future relationship that has been the source of so much of the controversy he certainly should.

(NB: I don't think the Speaker should have ruled MV3 out of order for reasons explained here )
Would it prevent No Deal? Clearly not. The EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 is very clear that to prevent No Deal the Political Declaration also needs to be approved.
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Jo Maugham QC
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"That's a tough one" is an extraordinary proposition for a Labour Party that has consistently said No Deal is the worst possible option.

But it's also why, even on Barry Gardiner's view of the world, MPs should support the @joannaccherry Motion which gives that decision to MPs.
I sometimes wonder idly whether Jeremy Corbyn is a Tory sleeper agent. It would be hard for him to do more long-term damage to the Labour Party if he tried.
Every Party has idiots and nut-cases. But only Labour actively seeks them* out and promotes them to the Front-Bench.

*NotAllFrontbenchers
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Jo Maugham QC
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Labour's Manifesto in 2017 said:

"Labour recognises that leaving the EU with ‘no deal’ is the worst possible deal for Britain... We will reject ‘no deal’ as a viable option."

Ask your Labour MP to meet their Manifesto promise and support this proposition.
Yesterday the Prime Minister promised the House of Commons:

"unless this House agrees to it, no deal will not happen"

Ask your Conservative MP to give effect to the Prime Minister's promise and support this proposition.
This proposition leaves space for Norway 2.0 and Labour's Customs Union plus - and the PM's deal too.

It seeks only to place the choice of ultimate fallback where it belongs - in the hands of MPs.
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