“We’re getting a very clear message from outside Parliament that the country expects people with different views to work together.”
The Leader of the Opposition looked totally incapable of taking over.
He learned at Westminster Council and City Hall the politics of persuading people to agree.
She calls that an “overblown” description, and says “it’s a strange sort of coup that starts with a whole lot of democratically elected members of Parliament”.
Strangely but truly, the best way of helping the Prime Minister is to send her back to Brussels to win concessions on the backstop.
The Speaker defied all precedent to allow an amendment which forces the Prime Minister to present the Commons with a ‘Plan B’ much sooner than planned.
Short of backing Labour in a no-confidence vote, rebels can only make such a departure more chaotic and hope the Prime Minister buckles.
The Government is suggesting that it will make little difference in practical terms – but opposed it for symbolic and political reasons.
We also reproduce the full text of the letter itself.
If you appoint Duncan Smith to the post she now holds, as Cameron did in 2010, it follows that you must fund his plan fully.
The wind has changed in the Prime Minister’s favour.
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The constitutional crisis MPs are threatening to bring down on all our heads will have wide-ranging and severe consequences.