Extension. Never mind the quality, feel the length.
The Prime Minister knows that a short extension is most likely to keep her in Downing Street. Which is why she always likely ultimately to back one.
Why – resentfully – I would vote for the Prime Minister’s deal
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.
What will the EU do now?
There is no sign that the Prime Minister would win MV3 this week even were she to get the DUP onside – and Bercow to allow a vote.
The moment for which Bercow has waited since he was a tiny boy
The crude effect of his ruling, crafted and sprung on a hapless Downing Street, is to make a third meaningful vote unlikely this week, and perhaps next week too.
The truth about Nick Boles and Grantham & Stamford’s Conservative Association
Or as close to it as a site well-disposed to both can get in this fallen world. This is the story of a marriage gone horribly wrong.
Enter – or rather exit – the Spartans
A dedicated band of Conservative pro-Brexit holdouts stands ready to perish rather than let May’s deal pass.
Would May agree to go quickly to get her deal through? She may yet hint at it. But watch the small print.
The idea might suit the leadership aspirations of some potential successors. But wishful thinking and stubborn reality don’t mix – at least not in this case.
The Vienna Convention is a very, very slender ladder down which to retreat
The precedents seem unfavourable to Brexiteer ambitions and it isn’t even obvious that it applies to UK-EU relations at all.
This Parliamentary farce reveals how much our political class has been infantilised
I expected a Leave victory to be a profound shock and challenge to politicians. They have struggled to adapt even more than I anticipated.
Our survey: members split evenly over whether to deselect Cabinet rebels
They are much less divided over whether to do the same to the Brexiteer rebels against the Withdrawal Agreement: definitely not.
A window for May’s deal, extensions, ultimatums, rebel Ministers, attempts to oust her, a waiting Letwin – and Cox’s Viennese codpiece
The morning after the day on which Brexit may have died. On which the politicians failed the people – and deliberately defied the referendum result.
The Commons votes to extend Article 50. The Government no longer supports leaving the EU on March 29.
Some will say that this is the day on which Brexit died. On which the politicians failed the people – and deliberately defied the referendum result.
May keeps control of the negotiation. She fends off Benn, Letwin, Cooper and company by two votes – 314 to 312
Key to her victory is yesterday’s Remainer / Soft Brexit Cabinet and other rebels falling into line after a Party backlash today.
Norway-type amendment goes down by three votes – 314 to 311
This was a scheme to steer the Commons in the direction of a Norway-style softer Brexit settlement.
We have a Commons vote on a second referendum. It goes down in flames by 334 – 85.
No wonder: there’s fundamental division among the move’s backers at having today’s vote at all. Labour abstains.