“A second referendum would be divisive…We’ve had the people’s vote,” the Education Secretary argues.
“Canada Plus Plus would be very good but in the meantime, [we can] get out without paying the £39 billion.”
The Labour leader is under mounting pressure to support a second referendum – but time is against one, and he knows it.
The Prime Minister is meeting EU leaders to seek the “legal and political assurances” on the backstop she promised MPs yesterday.
If you’d had to guess which of their MPs would rebel on the deal, Lamont and Ross wouldn’t have made the top six.
The Chancellor said the ballot will “flush out” those who are “trying to advance a particular agenda” harmful to the national interest.
Theresa May’s deputy dismissed WTO Brexit, Norway, Canada, and a second referendum in short order.
EU leaders should recognise that May is serious in trying to reach a negotiated deal that has a chance of passing Parliament.
He asked May to “tell us at least one action that is now taking place that wasn’t taking place last month”. The Prime Minister reported some letters had been sent.
The Prime Minister replies that “the question Members of this House must ask themselves is whether they wish to deliver Brexit” or not.
The Prime Minister challenges her critics in the Commons, while telling them “I have listened.”
The leading Remainer rebel doesn’t believe it to be an option that can realistically be offered to the electorate.
“I think, actually, what people want to hear is how we get out of the mess of the backstop.”
Meanwhile, there is little common ground in which to find a solution which would satisfy many Remainers and Leavers simultaneously.