Politics
Up to 100 Labour MPs set to pivot to second referendum
Up to 100 Labour MPs are set to pivot to a second referendum today, according to Sky News reports. Deputy political editor Beth Rigby posted last night that Labour politicians are set to pile the pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to make a second referendum his Plan B if his vote of no confidence fails. Theresa May is expected to survive this evening's vote with rebel Tory MPs and the DUP coming out in support of the Prime Minister. But she...
Full list of MPs who voted for and against May’s Brexit deal revealed
The full list of MPs who voted for and against Theresa May's deal with the European Union has been revealed. Some 432 MPs voted against the agreement in total, handing the government the biggest Commons defeat in British political history. The last time a government was defeated by more than 100 votes on the floor of the House of Commons was almost a century ago when the minority Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald went down to a defeat of 166. MPs...
432 MPs vote against May’s Brexit deal in “catastrophic defeat”
More than 400 MPs rejected Theresa May's deal with the European Union in tonight's meaningful vote. It is an unprecedented defeat in British political history. The last time a government was defeated by more than 100 votes on the floor of the House of Commons was almost a century ago when the minority Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald went down to a defeat of 166. Just 202 MPs voted in favour of May's deal in what Jeremy Corbyn described a "catastrophic...
Brexiteer MP calls on Theresa May to suspend parliament until April in order to “guarantee Brexit”
Brexiteer MP Desmond Swayne called on Theresa May to suspend parliament until April in order to "guarantee Brexit" in the Commons yesterday evening. The Conservative MP advised the PM to "prorogue Parliament" until Britain's divorce with the European Union had been cemented, comments which were dismissed by the Tory leader. Prorogation is the formal name given to the period between the end of a session of Parliament and the State Opening of Parliament that begins the next session. It brings...
Michael Gove trolled by his own words as he makes apocalyptic Brexit vote warning
Michael Gove referenced the apocalyptic motto of a Game of Thrones zombie army as he warned MPs off a no deal Brexit, insisting that iof they did not vote for Theresa May's EU withdrawal agreement, "winter is coming." In a change of tone from Theresa May who told workers in a factory that had been given massive EU grants that voting against her deal would mean Brexit might not happen, Brexit cheerleader Gove used an apocalypse metaphor. "We are in a...
Mel Stride flashes “no food, no Channel Tunnel” notes ahead of cabinet meeting
The financial secretary to the Treasury flashed notes warning of "no food" and "no Channel Tunnel" ahead of a cabinet meeting yesterday. Conservative MP for Central Devon, Mel Stride was snapped outside the cabinet office with the list poking out of a red folder. According to political photographer Steve Back - who took the photo - Stride was on his way to a Brexit meeting. The picture has caused a furore on social media, although some commentators have speculated that the gaffe could have been...
House of Lords votes against Theresa May’s Brexit deal and no deal Brexit by massive majority
Last night the House of Lords voted on an opposition motion against Theresa May’s EU withdrawal deal and also a no deal Brexit by a massive majority of 169. Peers from across the political spectrum voted 321 votes to 152 for Labour peer Lady basildon’s motion to reject a no deal outcome and regret the terms of the government deal and future relationship with EU. The Lords voted overwhelmingly less than 24 hours before the Commons meaningful vote on Brexit that...
Theresa May’s last ditch plea to MPs to vote for her Brexit deal in factory that received £429K EU grant
In news you couldn’t make up, it turns out that the factory that Theresa May made her last-ditch attempt to persuade Tory rebels to vote for her Brexit deal today received £429,000 from the EU. The Prime Minister visited Stoke-on-Trent today, most of which voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum to give a speech outlining how not voting for her Brexit deal in the meaningful vote on Brexit tomorrow risked Brexit not happening at all. But the...
Tory whip resigns ahead of Brexit vote warning deal leaves UK “perpetually constrained” by EU
Government whip Gareth Johnson has just quit, telling Theresa May in his letter (below) that he cannot in all conscience “reconcile his duties as a Whip” with implementing her European Withdrawal Agreement. The Brexit-supporting Conservative MP warns that the controversial "back stop" in the agreement to stop the Northern Ireland peace agreement falling apart "ensures we will be fettered in our ability to negotiate trade deals with other nations in future." The Tory MP resigning as a minister in the...