If the United Kingdom’s negotiating position appears incoherent, much of the blame rests with those who put the legislature in charge.
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 Health Secretary says he “emphatically” does not want No Deal, but it is “incumbent” on those who share that view to support a solution.
Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.
The constitutional crisis MPs are threatening to bring down on all our heads will have wide-ranging and severe consequences.
What exactly are Benn, Cooper and Boles, Creasy, Grieve, Reeves and Corbyn proposing?
“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”
The object of the exercise is to absorb within a stable democratic practice a new element which, if unabsorbed, may have fatal effects.
Not only would he hand control to a minority of MPs, but the supposed cross-party requirement would count defectors as endorsement from the Government benches.
Farage urged everyone to prepare for a second referendum, and concluded: “Next time, as far as I’m concerned, it’s no more Mr Nice Guy.”
“It would deepen division, when we need unity. It would bring chaos when we need certainty. And it would bring delay when we need to move forward.”
“Parliament gave the people the choice”, the Prime Minister reminds the House ahead of the vote on her proposed deal.
“I was keen to see an agreement delivered that I could support…[but] the deal on the table potentially gives away our sovereignty and £39 billion.”
Opposing it in the hope of something better risks ending up with the worst possible outcome: no Brexit at all.
We want to learn from what other Parliaments have done when faced with difficult choices. Such an assembly would report back within ten weeks.