BREAKING: British MPs back seeking article 50 extension
, a Labour backbencher. Mr Bryant wants MPs to vote on whether they believe that Mrs May can put an unchanged Brexit deal before the Commons to a vote.
Parliamentary precedent holds that the government cannot ask MPs to vote twice on the same issue during the same session of parliament, to prevent the executive bullying the Commons by putting the same measure to a vote repeatedly.Third votewas set to put her twice-rejected Brexit deal to a vote in the House of Commons again, piling pressure on rebel politicians to back her battered agreement.
That third vote could come next week, as the clock ticks down to the UK’s scheduled departure from the bloc on March 29th. The latest developments come amid reports the DUP leader, Arlene Foster, has signalled her party is ready to do a deal to end the Brexit impasse. Tory eurosceptics told the Guardian that they and the DUP could be persuaded to back Mrs May’s Brexit deal if Geoffrey Cox, the attorney general, gave clearer legal advice about how the UK could withdraw from an international treaty.
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