“Last night, the House set a clear direction on the way that the House could agree a deal.”
The Leader of the Opposition looked totally incapable of taking over.
She insists to Marr that she is trying to deliver a “good deal”, not to disrupt Brexit.
The Speaker is unlikely to select backbench amendments designed to help her, so her least bad option is a Government one.
Is it reasonable to expect more political benefit from record numbers in employment, record numbers of vacancies, and wages rising faster than inflation?
What exactly are Benn, Cooper and Boles, Creasy, Grieve, Reeves and Corbyn proposing?
The Labour leader responded by borrowing Hilary Benn’s line that the Prime Minister’s door may be open but her mind is closed.
They are curiously well-matched, for both of them prefer repetition to entertainment.
“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”
Had the DUP voted with Labour, the opposition would have won by a single vote – a point that party is busy making.
But the Prime Minister had to proceed with caution in the No Confidence debate, in order to arouse no suspicion that she might seek moderate Labour votes.
Corbyn is intensely vague on the topic – and is doing his very best to remain so.
Let’s see if Labour stands with Venezuela’s oppressed. For what party could truly say that it supports labour, while lending support to the butchery of labourers?