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I am told cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill and attorney general Geoffrey Cox informed Cabinet that if at the end of the Letwin process MPs pass a motion mandating the PM to pursue a new route through the Brexit mess - perhaps a referendum, or membership...
of the customs union, or some other softer future relationship with the EU - the PM and government would be in breach of the ministerial code and the law if they failed to follow MP's instructions. I'll put out a blog on this in a bit. But this matters because it dispels...
impression created by PM, and certainly believed by many Brexiter MPs, that she would be at liberty to ignore the results of the Letwin scheme. Which means that if she brings back her deal for a meaningful vote on Friday, which is her current plan, that may be the last time...
for MPs and Northern Ireland's DUP to secure any Brexit at all or a Brexit they see as worth the name (if they think Letwin will lead to MPs coalescing around a single route through the current impasse - which of course may not happen). Whether her deal passes based on...
such Brexiter and DUP fear is of course still moot.
