May makes her choice at last. She tears up her red lines.
By saying for the first time that “the Government stands ready to abide by the decision of the House”, she risks splitting her own Party.
By saying for the first time that “the Government stands ready to abide by the decision of the House”, she risks splitting her own Party.
PS: We make that 28 Spartans and six Remainers. The Prime Minister won only nine votes from across the floor, and lost the DUP.
The EU won’t grant us a long extension for fear of what European elections here would produce. If we hold our nerve, the UK will Brexit on WTO terms in April.
This week has seen Parliament grab control, and this has serious implications for the practices of responsible government.
In other words, May waits for Letwin. Which adds a new dimension to her chicken game. Her message is: “vote for my deal soon – or get his.”
Rees-Mogg details how the deal is “definitely not” worse than Remain. And: why the Letwin plan is constitutionally “absurd”.
Leadsom seems to be the only one with lead in her pencil. All she needs now is to grow big fat hairy balls.
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.
In addition to ‘Malthouse II’ and the Spelman/Dromey Amendment are several tabled by the Independent Group and nationalist parties.
There is more than one moving part in this complex day, and some could counteract one another.
That motions next week will be amendable opens up a can of worms for the Government – or rather a can of serpents.
May is so weak that even her command of the payroll vote is slipping. If her Government loses control of European policy, can it really remain in office?
Plus: What anti-Muslim prejudice? I know of a Tory branch that moved their meeting from a pub in an attempt to make a Muslim member feel more comfortable.
Some Associations will have received ‘guidance’ from CCHQ on whether a motion passed at the National Convention can be replicated at Association AGMs. The answer, of course, is yes.