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A quick thread on @theresa_may promise "I'll quit if you pass my Brexit bill". 1/ Never trust her. She has run one of the most duplicitous administrations in British history. Get it in writing before the vote....
2/ The internal dynamics of the Tory party mean her replacement will either be an outright hard-Brexiteer or a centrist prepared to do hard Brexit. Why would any moderate Tory trigger civil war in the party in those conditions. It's a promise aimed at the Tory xenophobic right...
3/ The EU now knows it is negotiating with a zombie PM, if it didn't before. By forcing May to make this statement the ERG have debased and weakened British diplomacy...
4/ Tonight, the only whipped vote that matters is Labour for Beckett (Kyle-Wilson). Contact your MP and ask them politely to stick with Labour's policy - a second referendum to ratify any deal done in this parliament.
5/ The political death of the May administration is really also the death of "born to rule" Toryism. In a system that no longer works, pulling the levers of power while hiding from the British people is not enough. She's finished. They're finished. newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
