Some would-be rebels switched sides at the last minute, while at least three others abstained.
The former Attorney-General’s amendment is carried by four votes after further concessions were offered by Ministers.
DExEU must continue after March next year to prevent the EU from using constructive ambiguity to implement regulatory absorption.
All in all, the Progress Document is something of a canine’s breakfast, with the Irish border tail wagging the UK dog.
The Opposition claims to honour the outcome of the referendum, while opposing the UK taking back control of its laws, its money, and its borders.
This is good news for people who voted Leave…[and] it’s good news for people who voted Remain.”
I understand the Government’s keenness to achieve a free trade agreement with the EU, but we need to be careful that the price is not too high.
There is plenty of reason to check that the Government’s ones have been giving sound legal advice to ministers. Too often, it has been wrong.
Her case for the last week’s deal. ECJ: “compulsory jurisdiction…will have ended.” Money: “if there is no agreement then our offer also falls away”.
The deal’s internal contradictions are coming back to haunt it, to the confusion of May, Varadkar, Juncker, Barnier – the whole lot of them.
Get Heywood and Robbins out; get Rees-Mogg and Duncan Smith in. There is still a chance to reverse last week’s defeat.
“The odds against a No Deal outcome have dropped dramatically. That’s the meaning of this week.”
“Things are moving so fast that one doesn’t know what’s going to happen next, but we’re not calling for it.”
These practical recommendations outline how EU migration could be sharply reduced while preserving access for employers to the best and brightest from across the EU..