Those who backed the motion included Guto Bebb, Antointte Sandbach and Ed Vaizey.
She accepts the regulator has the last word, but says that “We were rule-compliant according to the legal advice we were given at that time”.
They are at least on-brand in refusing to accept the result of the vote on the proposal which has already taken place – which they lost.
The Prime Minister seemed to imply that if MPs will not bend to her will, she is off.
Like it or not, the choice has shifted away from ‘Deal or No Deal’ towards ‘Deal or No Brexit’. It’s better to fight against a bad deal outside the EU than to Remain.
Critics of the deal need to compromise and accept the actual choices on offer. Refusal to do so risks an outcome far worse, or no Brexit at all.
As Meaningful Vote Three on May’s deal looms, we republish the poll of over 12,000 voters which revealed the concerns that helped to decide the referendum.
The Opposition, which instructed its MPs to abstain, split three ways on the question.
Some Leavers voted against as a way to get No Deal. But hardcore Remainers voted against as a way to stop Brexit. They can’t both be right.
The Prime Minister finds herself threatened, like Lord North, with the role of scapegoat for a failed policy.
William Keegan’s memoir describes with ebullient good humour how he covered half a century of bad news.
“Let’s do what is necessary for MPs to back the deal on Tuesday. Because if MPs reject the deal, nothing is certain. It would be at a moment of crisis.”
This impasse is of Parliament’s creation. It is the failure of some MPs to honour the instructions of the British people which has led us here.
Our party owns this crisis. If we honour the referendum we can shape the next decade. If we don’t then chaos – and Corbyn – await.