A dedicated band of Conservative pro-Brexit holdouts stands ready to perish rather than let May’s deal pass.
I voted for the Prime Minister’s deal today. But the Commons didn’t – and we now all need a positive alternative.
Philip Davies, a famously long-standing and committed Brexiteer, is among their number.
That motions next week will be amendable opens up a can of worms for the Government – or rather a can of serpents.
There’s no guarantee that it would return a Commons supportive of any deal that May might put before it.
Her motion is defeated. Will the EU now abandon her, and egg on Letwin and his supporters to try to take formal control of the negotiation?
He talks Brady, Norway, prorogation, and postponing Article 50, and explains why the ERG is “not a fourth party”. Plus: does the Queen listen to the Moggcast?
The Withdrawal Agreement is far from ideal, but strip it of its worst fault – the backstop – and we can build a viable majority to proceed.
The Speaker is unlikely to select backbench amendments designed to help her, so her least bad option is a Government one.
The biggest defeat in modern times and the largest Tory rebellion won’t stop her trying to resurrect her deal.
His campaigning on behalf of ex-servicemen helped him see off Graham Brady, Tracey Crouch and Dominic Grieve.
As the Prime Minister herself has said, we need to see meaningful, legally-binding changes to the Withdrawal Agreement, removing the backstop.