The important vote tomorrow will be on the timetable or programme motion for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, the law that must pass before Brexit. The government wants it on the statute book by 31 October. Labour will try to humiliate the PM by forcing a delay. One minister...
tells me that programme motion is therefore the “real meaningful vote”. Tory rebels say they will probably back @BorisJohnson’s timetable if he enshrines the protection of environmental standards and workers’ rights in the bill, and if the bill transfers to parliament power to...
decide whether transition to full Brexit is to last 14 months, 26 months or 38 months. But if Johnson gives in to the Tory rebels he risks alienating the Brexit Spartans of the ERG. Tomorrow does feel like make or break for Johnson’s Brexit (though obviously the history of...
Brexit has been littered with supposed crunch days that became nothing says).
