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The idea that leaving the EU simply cannot be done has emerged since the referendum – if true, it would shatter our political system.
She sought to reassure the “many people…worried about what Parliament’s rejection of the withdrawal deal means for them.”
“Some serious people from both sides came together in a good-hearted and civilised relationship, to try to find a way forward.”
We have received full details of the plan and offer it without comment for the interest of our readers.
Our Government alone isn’t entitled to finalise a deal. It must have Parliamentary endorsement. And this Commons rejected the deal by a record margin.
“I pointed out that this would be the first time in British history that we had entered into a treaty arrangement with anybody else in which there was no right to leave.”
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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.
We want to learn from what other Parliaments have done when faced with difficult choices. Such an assembly would report back within ten weeks.
The Health Secretary says he “emphatically” does not want No Deal, but it is “incumbent” on those who share that view to support a solution.
Even if the Exchange of Letters were viewed as just short of a treaty, it would be far from legally worthless.