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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...
by @joannaccherry of the SNP. It has been reworked since last week after discussions with Labour to make it more palatable to the offficial opposition. It no longer simply turns the default of a no-deal Brexit in the absence of a ratified Brexit deal into revocation of the...
decision to leave the EU. Instead it would mandate the government first to seek a Brexit delay and would only move to revocation if the EU refused a postponement. And it also specifies that after revocation a public inquiry would be initiated into whether there is a...
version of Brexit that would command public support, and if such a Brexit iteration were found it would be put to another referendum. In other words, if @jeremycorbyn and Labour were to support the Cherry motion, they could just about claim that in...
agreeing with her that no-deal should be totally obliterated as an option and replaced by a default of staying in the EU, they were nonetheless explicitly setting up a process to find a less divisive and contentious form of Brexit. Cherry has been clever in offering...
this fig leaf of continued backing for a possible future Brexit to Labour and any other MP who wishes - tenuously perhaps - to say they still respect the result of the 2017 referendum. But it is the fig leaf of fig leaves, and is probably too clever by half. Apart from
...anything else, if it were supported by MPs, any residual notion that the government of @theresa_may runs this place in any meaningful way would be erased.
