What counts most is opposition to a Bill or to parts of it. And most Tory criticisms of the EU Withdrawal Bill aren’t coming from the Brexiteers.
Those Remainer MPs who hope to continue the fight face particular difficulties.
He tells the Commons that if the House of Lords opposes Article 50 it would be committing “political suicide”.
Davis and Starmer said the EU referendum result must be respected, but Clarke upheld MPs’ right to defy it.
He takes two in five votes. Boris Johnson is second on 21 per cent.
Almost six months on from the EU referendum, we present a mini-series on five people who helped to shape the result.
Matters might reach a point at which although Brexit is not blocked, orderly government becomes impossible.
The Prime Minister seized the moral high ground by condemning “segregated political meetings”.
The Mayor of London will not admit it, but he is likely to vote to remain in the European Union.
As the Prime Minister took questions on his EU deal, only Jacob Rees-Mogg managed to disturb his equanimity.
Plus: Comforting Oborne in the Aegean. Rampant rabbits in the Lords. Lidders Agonistes. McVey’s moment. And: How two Labour MPs banged away in the rifle club.
Recent ConservativeHome authors James Wharton and Guto Bebb are present. Both expressed concern about the consequences for their areas of the offer to Scotland.
A senior backbench Conservative e-mails the Minister of State at the Department for International Development.
He wouldn’t have let Cash and Fox, Johnson and Rees-Mogg seize the agenda. He would have fought Farage’s populism as he fought that of Powell.