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Theresa May Off The Hook - For Now!

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

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The Prime Minister managed to get through the votes unscathed yesterday. But what was the price she paid?

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As the votes came in and the amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill fell one by one you could be forgiven for thinking that the Brexiteers must be over the moon with delight.

But while the debates and votes were going on, Theresa May was meeting with Remainers and Leavers giving assurances to both. And the shock to the PM and her Chief Whip it seems, was that there were so many potential Brexit rebels - she had to give them something.

So they were told that MPs will somehow be given some sort of unspecified meaningful vote on the final deal (trust me, she is reported to have said). This of course could effectively remove the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, which would play right into the hands of EU negotiators and infuriate Brexiteers.

As a result the Tory pro-EU mob decided to back the government, so allowing the amendments to fall.

But at the same time the PM was also telling the Leavers that no red lines would be crossed and that the no-deal Brexit option would still be there as part of the negotiating tactics.

The sweetener she gave to the pro-EU Tories is opaque and unspecified, so you can bet your bottom dollar that they have a completely different view of what they were offered to what the Brexiteers will have thought they were offered.

And the Sun reports just that saying:

"The PM came through a crucial vote only after pro-EU Tories forced her to agree to boost Remainer MPs’ power over negotiations with Brussels. But amid chaos last night, Leavers flatly denied Remainers’ claims that Mrs May had allowed them to veto any “no-deal” walk away."

With what the Sun describes as one of the senior Brexiteers in the government telling the newspaper:

"If Theresa has sold us out here she is in real trouble. There is no way she can recover if she has f***ed us over."

Jacob Rees-Mogg however seems a bit more relaxed about it saying that although the concession was a mistake, it actually made a no deal Brexit more likely.

And the reason he gives is that under the separation of powers, parliament has its place of legislating and government as a separate body is the executive and should do the negotiating. And parliament trying to negotiate with the EU by voting bills through parliament was not going to end well if you wanted a deal.

"If we get into the position in November where there is not a deal that the House of Commons likes and it sets down motions for what the government must do, if it asks for things that the EU then doesn't give, it will take too long for the government to be able to go back to parliament, back to the EU to get a deal." He said.

At some stage Theresa May is going to have to square this circle or possibly go to the country - again. She cannot keep kicking this Tory party division can down the road hoping it will somehow disappear into the long grass.

As to voting, there were twelve divisions for the EU Withdrawal Bill and only two Tories rebelled; Ken Clarke voted against his own government eight times and Anna Soubry four times.

And on the Labour side, from my counting, the rebels voting with the government were: Frank Field nine times, Kate Hoey nine, Graham Stringer nine, Ronnie Campbell three, John Mann three, Dennis Skinner once.

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Sources:

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-06-12/prime-minister-sees-off-potential-rebellion-over-brexit-bill/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6514660/brexit-chaos-leavers-remainers-veto-no-deal-theresa-may/

https://brexitcentral.com/mps-voted-lords-amendments-eu-withdrawal-bill/

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/973363/Brexit-concession-Rees-Mogg-vote-prediction-Lords-amendments

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/973677/Conservative-Party-SNP-PMQs-House-of-Commons-Ian-Blackford-Nicola-Sturgeon

http://www.theweek.co.uk/94224/why-iq-levels-are-falling

https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/12/young-people-getting-dumb-dumber-iq-scores-drop-7623999/

https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/news/2018/06/trade-deals

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