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Vote tomorrow on @jeremycorbyn @oletwinofficial motion to start process to get prorogation off table, and give MPs a meaningful vote on no deal, will be huge. It will determine whether @BorisJohnson can credibly promise to take UK out of EU on 31 Oct - and if Letwin and Corbyn...
fail, then no deal becomes a very real prospect. I am reliably told the vote will be tight. There will be Tories who vote with Letwin. “We’ll either win or lose by five votes” a well-place source told me. As for Letwin, in teaming up with Corbyn he is outraging colleagues and...
putting his sense of national duty above party loyalty. Very hard thing to do, especially in the extreme febrile conditions of today’s leaderless Conservative Party.
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