Garvan Walshe: The defeat of May’s deal was a consequence of half a decade of negotiation failure
Why should the EU offer any more to an inconstant departing member, which can’t be relied on to deliver ratification of any agreement?
May’s statement about the Government’s plans now. What she said and what she meant.
The biggest defeat in modern times and the largest Tory rebellion won’t stop her trying to resurrect her deal.
Robert Halfon: Now is the time for Common Market 2.0, and an EFTA-type plan for Brexit
Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?
May’s Deal suffers the biggest Government defeat in modern Commons history
The backbench rebellion was also the biggest against a Conservative Government in modern times.
Almost good enough isn’t good enough
Strangely but truly, the best way of helping the Prime Minister is to send her back to Brussels to win concessions on the backstop.
The Moggcast. “Most of the poison is in the backstop.” Were it removed, Rees-Mogg might support May’s plan.
But though such a change might win his support, would it persuade his colleagues? Plus: he believes Bercow made “an honest error” last week.
Jeremy Hunt: This deal is a compromise, but it honours the referendum result – and it must pass
Opposing it in the hope of something better risks ending up with the worst possible outcome: no Brexit at all.
A fact amidst the rumours. The Prime Minister is failing to persuade most rebel Conservative MPs to switch and support her deal.
We count four so far from our list of 109 who have changed their minds – and all of them were only “probables”.
Nicky Morgan: Imperfect, certainly. But May’s plan avoids the twin perils of No Deal and No Brexit. The Commons should back it.
Supporting the deal would also prevent several other things – such as the possibibility of a truly socialist government taking over.
Peter Bone: I helped move Cameron’s Government to deliver the referendum. This deal doesn’t deliver on the result.
It is certainly not the Brexit that people voted for. As Bill Clinton might have said about the main issue: It’s the Sovereignty, Stupid!
Grayling, Patten, the Far Right, the IRA, Brexit, the Speaker – and the difference between a threat and a warning
If two men are in a car, and the passenger says to the driver: “Look out! You’re going to crash,” he is shouting out the second, not the first.
Owen Paterson: No Deal would put the people back in control
Other options being floated are designed to hold us in the EU’s orbit in the hope that we may be sucked back in.
As the ‘meaningful vote’ approaches, apply buckets of salt to all Government news
Scepticism is always a healthy attitude – but the spin being pumped out this weekend merits even more than normal.
Stephen Booth: There are reasons to be sceptical about the Brexit deal. But its security provisions aren’t one of them.
At the root of concerns seems to be a fear about what might happen, rather than what the Withdrawal Agreement actually says.
How Trump appeals to unspeakable emotions
A new book about Holocaust and climate change denial also casts light on the American President.