The precedents seem unfavourable to Brexiteer ambitions and it isn’t even obvious that it applies to UK-EU relations at all.
The panel, comprising legally-trained Conservative and DUP MPs as well as outside experts, set out their full legal reasoning for rejecting the deal.
The thinking of most of the 78 per cent will be that Britain should leave the EU on March 29 as expected.
Which presumably means, since Dodds is one of the eight, that the DUP takes the same view.
MPs have less than a day to study this revised deal. So today’s vote should be postponed. If it isn’t, they should withhold support from the Government.
If her revised plan fails, the most likely outcomes are an even softer Brexit or a second referendum.
The latter, we believe. And we caution against presuming that they are predisposed to support a revised deal.
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I also propose the Government staying neutral to recognise that people across the Conservative Party have very genuinely held, but different, views.
This Withdrawal Agreement would leave us half in and half out of the EU as a ‘vassal state’. It is a denial of the votes of 17.4 million people to leave the EU.
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We all want Brexit over and done with now, but the deal has to be the right one for our country.