,
6 tweets,
2 min read
Read on Twitter
Looks like absolute scenes in Parliament yet again. Key amendment to secure time for Monday debate just being voted on. Big conflab at the clerks table instead of result being announced. Too close? Disputed figures? Andrea Leadsom now reading Erskine May...
@ParlyApp Now all the huddles are behind the Speaker's Chair. Notable that apart from @amandamilling it's mainly men. Speaker in animated conversations. The official HoC photos are going to be quite something. Now point of order asking what on earth going on.
Speaker says the two (Tory & Lab) Chief Whips have been asked to discuss the situation briefly. It's the 'usual channels' in real-time and with TV cameras...
310 - 310 a tie...
Important decisions need majority says Speaker, so his casting vote is No. That means no indicative Brexit votes on Monday.
#ironyalert Last Speaker casting vote was in 1993, on Maastrict Treaty. If this was a film script it'd be dismissed as far-fetched.
Important decisions need majority says Speaker, so his casting vote is No. That means no indicative Brexit votes on Monday.
#ironyalert Last Speaker casting vote was in 1993, on Maastrict Treaty. If this was a film script it'd be dismissed as far-fetched.
We do at least get to debate the Cooper Bill today, to order the PM to ask for an extension to A50.
312 - 311 votes this time 😅
312 - 311 votes this time 😅
Brilliant photo of some of the drama today - Mark Duffy via @HoCPress 
