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Brexit: MPs told to pass deal by next Wednesday or face long article 50 extension - Politics live | Brexit: MPs told to pass deal by next Wednesday or face long article 50 extension - Politics live |
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Hello everyone. | |
This is Kate Lyons taking over the blog from my colleague Jedidajah Otte, which means we have come full circle on a huge day of Brexit news. I started this blog at about 5:30 on Wednesday morning and will keep it ticking over through the wee hours of Thursday morning, until there is no more news to report. | |
I sincerely hope for your sakes that none of you have been reading the blog that entire time (if you have, please go to sleep), though I wouldn’t blame you if you had been glued to it for that time, given the day that has just been and the stellar work of my colleagues in bringing the news to you. | |
I’ll be bringing you reaction from MPs, the papers and commentators. For now, here’s how the last few day’s Brexit happenings have been seen by the newspaper cartoonists of Australia: | |
Goldilocks and the Brexit.My @smh @theage cartoon. pic.twitter.com/XC74bbV4iO | |
Brescherxit in today’s @australian pic.twitter.com/WFrXCyjVO3 | |
I’m now handing over to my colleague Kate Lyons, who will continue rounding up reactions. | |
David Davis, who voted for the unsuccessful Malthouse agreement earlier, wants to “help” Theresa May deliver Brexit. | |
Conservative MP David Davis tells Nick Watt that Theresa May “knows she has to deliver Brexit” but that “she will get there, people like me will help her get there”#newsnight | @nicholaswatt pic.twitter.com/i4d2mVsqVo | |
Sarah Newton MP, the 15th member of the government to quit over Brexit, has provided a statement: | |
“At the last general election I was given a mandate by my constituents to deliver Brexit, with an orderly transition to a new, close and special relationship with the EU. To deliver Brexit with a deal not a no-deal Brexit. I believe the withdrawal agreement and the future political declaration deliver on that manifesto pledge and will continue to support it. | |
Today, I resigned from the government so that I could vote for a motion that honours my commitment to my constituents, to leave the EU with a deal. | |
Like many of my constituents, I have been inspired by the personal courage and resilience of the prime minister and will continue to support her Herculean effort to secure enough support from across the house to leave the EU with a deal.” | |
According to HuffPost UK’s Paul Waugh, things could indeed be entirely up to Speaker John Bercow from here on. | According to HuffPost UK’s Paul Waugh, things could indeed be entirely up to Speaker John Bercow from here on. |
Speaker today issued a dark warning (during Gove speech if I recall rightly) that he would rule on whether it's in order for Govt to simply table same deal again and again. He really could throw a spanner in works next week. And he has nothing to lose. https://t.co/67Jrug6TEo | Speaker today issued a dark warning (during Gove speech if I recall rightly) that he would rule on whether it's in order for Govt to simply table same deal again and again. He really could throw a spanner in works next week. And he has nothing to lose. https://t.co/67Jrug6TEo |
For now, Jacob Rees-Mogg seems unwilling to concede defeat, as the bill required to actually rule out a no-deal scenario does not exist yet. | For now, Jacob Rees-Mogg seems unwilling to concede defeat, as the bill required to actually rule out a no-deal scenario does not exist yet. |
The law still says we leave on 29th March.https://t.co/gmna7gaaHq | The law still says we leave on 29th March.https://t.co/gmna7gaaHq |
Gina Miller has predictably called for exactly this bill to be passed without much further ado. | Gina Miller has predictably called for exactly this bill to be passed without much further ado. |
Vote tonight 1st step back onto the path to commonsense and our country's interest before party. Now need it to be binding legislation. | Vote tonight 1st step back onto the path to commonsense and our country's interest before party. Now need it to be binding legislation. |
Or, as one Simon Schama puts it: | Or, as one Simon Schama puts it: |
Mogg doing his "law of the land" drone. And he's quite right. But guess what, chuckles, Parliament can change that law. | Mogg doing his "law of the land" drone. And he's quite right. But guess what, chuckles, Parliament can change that law. |
As Tory Brexiters have suffered a major blow tonight, a number of pundits suggest that ERG MPs might support May’s deal in a third “meaningful vote” next week. However, it is not certain that Speaker John Bercow will allow MV3 if the deal is submitted again without any changes, as Ian Dunt, editor of Politics.co.uk, points out: | As Tory Brexiters have suffered a major blow tonight, a number of pundits suggest that ERG MPs might support May’s deal in a third “meaningful vote” next week. However, it is not certain that Speaker John Bercow will allow MV3 if the deal is submitted again without any changes, as Ian Dunt, editor of Politics.co.uk, points out: |
2) It is not clear that Bercow will allow - or even can allow - the govt to put a motion down on the deal again if there have been no changes to it. I'll look into the exact rules on that tomorrow. Health warning on it for now. | 2) It is not clear that Bercow will allow - or even can allow - the govt to put a motion down on the deal again if there have been no changes to it. I'll look into the exact rules on that tomorrow. Health warning on it for now. |
Greetings, I’m taking over from my colleague Andrew Sparrow and will gather some reactions to tonight’s events in parliament. | Greetings, I’m taking over from my colleague Andrew Sparrow and will gather some reactions to tonight’s events in parliament. |
And what an evening it’s been. | And what an evening it’s been. |
I normally try very, very, hard not to say things like this, but have never actually seen anything like what's happened tonight | I normally try very, very, hard not to say things like this, but have never actually seen anything like what's happened tonight |
No one knows how the Brexit crisis will end up being resolved, but it is escalating, and getting closer to the point where something decisive will happen. Tonight’s votes have shoved events quite some way in that direction. Here are the key developments. | No one knows how the Brexit crisis will end up being resolved, but it is escalating, and getting closer to the point where something decisive will happen. Tonight’s votes have shoved events quite some way in that direction. Here are the key developments. |
Theresa May has now finally issued her MPs with an ultimatum; back her deal, or face a long delay to Brexit. (See 8.21pm.) Until now she has sought to threaten Brexiters with the prospect of Brexit being delayed or cancelled, and pro-Europeans, and Labour, with the prospect of a no-deal Brexit, in an effort to get MPs to vote for her plan. Tonight, with MPs voting against no deal, she has gone further than ever before in putting the squeeze on the ERG (European Research Group). | Theresa May has now finally issued her MPs with an ultimatum; back her deal, or face a long delay to Brexit. (See 8.21pm.) Until now she has sought to threaten Brexiters with the prospect of Brexit being delayed or cancelled, and pro-Europeans, and Labour, with the prospect of a no-deal Brexit, in an effort to get MPs to vote for her plan. Tonight, with MPs voting against no deal, she has gone further than ever before in putting the squeeze on the ERG (European Research Group). |
But her authority within her party is vanishing. May only agreed to offer today’s debate on ruling out no deal because last month pro-European ministers threatened to resign en masse if she didn’t. Tonight’s events were a shambles for the Conservative parliamentary party, and May has been openly defied by ministers who abstained rather than follow the party whip. (See 8.49pm.) This is not a normal state of affairs, and in the long run having such a weak PM is probably unsustainable. | But her authority within her party is vanishing. May only agreed to offer today’s debate on ruling out no deal because last month pro-European ministers threatened to resign en masse if she didn’t. Tonight’s events were a shambles for the Conservative parliamentary party, and May has been openly defied by ministers who abstained rather than follow the party whip. (See 8.49pm.) This is not a normal state of affairs, and in the long run having such a weak PM is probably unsustainable. |
Increasingly parliament really is taking control. May was defeated today on an amendment tabled by a Tory backbencher (Caroline Spelman) and pushed to a vote by a Labour backbencher (Yvette Cooper), although it was the PLP (parliamentary Labour party) that provided the muscle to defeat May. Tomorrow we are likely to see further votes on backbench amendments indicating that the legislature, not the executive, is taking the initiative. No 10 says it is not supporting calls for “indicative votes” on Brexit alternatives, but it seems they may well happen anyway in some form or another, via backbench amendments. | Increasingly parliament really is taking control. May was defeated today on an amendment tabled by a Tory backbencher (Caroline Spelman) and pushed to a vote by a Labour backbencher (Yvette Cooper), although it was the PLP (parliamentary Labour party) that provided the muscle to defeat May. Tomorrow we are likely to see further votes on backbench amendments indicating that the legislature, not the executive, is taking the initiative. No 10 says it is not supporting calls for “indicative votes” on Brexit alternatives, but it seems they may well happen anyway in some form or another, via backbench amendments. |
The threat of a no-deal Brexit on 29 March - a prospect that for the last two years May has repeatedly kept on the table - has almost certainly been removed. That does not mean tonight’s votes kill off no deal for good (see 7.29pm), but May has accepted it must not happen this month. | The threat of a no-deal Brexit on 29 March - a prospect that for the last two years May has repeatedly kept on the table - has almost certainly been removed. That does not mean tonight’s votes kill off no deal for good (see 7.29pm), but May has accepted it must not happen this month. |
The notion that the Malthouse compromise offers an acceptable way forward has been comprehensively dismissed. This amendment was rejected by a majority of 210. (See 7.35pm.) Given the enormous faith placed in Malthouse by Tory Brexiters, this was a colossal defeat for them. | The notion that the Malthouse compromise offers an acceptable way forward has been comprehensively dismissed. This amendment was rejected by a majority of 210. (See 7.35pm.) Given the enormous faith placed in Malthouse by Tory Brexiters, this was a colossal defeat for them. |
Here is our main story tonight. | Here is our main story tonight. |
May’s final warning to Tory rebels: back me or lose Brexit | May’s final warning to Tory rebels: back me or lose Brexit |
My colleague Jedidajah Otte is now taking over to cover any further reaction. | My colleague Jedidajah Otte is now taking over to cover any further reaction. |
The DUP are not minded to flinch, according to the Telegraph’s Jack Maidment. | The DUP are not minded to flinch, according to the Telegraph’s Jack Maidment. |
DUP super chilled about tonight's events. No plans to budge on their backstop red lines.DUP source: “We are quite relaxed about the current situation. We have been in this type of position before. Things tend to go down to the wire. We will keep pushing for a good deal.” | DUP super chilled about tonight's events. No plans to budge on their backstop red lines.DUP source: “We are quite relaxed about the current situation. We have been in this type of position before. Things tend to go down to the wire. We will keep pushing for a good deal.” |