Rees-Mogg details how the deal is “definitely not” worse than Remain. And: why the Letwin plan is constitutionally “absurd”.
Leadsom seems to be the only one with lead in her pencil. All she needs now is to grow big fat hairy balls.
The precedents seem unfavourable to Brexiteer ambitions and it isn’t even obvious that it applies to UK-EU relations at all.
The panel, comprising legally-trained Conservative and DUP MPs as well as outside experts, set out their full legal reasoning for rejecting the deal.
In addition to ‘Malthouse II’ and the Spelman/Dromey Amendment are several tabled by the Independent Group and nationalist parties.
There is more than one moving part in this complex day, and some could counteract one another.
That motions next week will be amendable opens up a can of worms for the Government – or rather a can of serpents.
May is so weak that even her command of the payroll vote is slipping. If her Government loses control of European policy, can it really remain in office?
Some Associations will have received ‘guidance’ from CCHQ on whether a motion passed at the National Convention can be replicated at Association AGMs. The answer, of course, is yes.
Quangos, councils, media outlets, even the police are apparently content to apply unequal restrictions to those of us whose views they dislike.
The latter, we believe. And we caution against presuming that they are predisposed to support a revised deal.
The Defence minister tells the BBC that “it is not something that we can contemplate”.
This week has seen Parliament grab control, and this has serious implications for the practices of responsible government.