FEARS of a new General Election spiralled among MPs last night as a yet another crippling Commons defeat saw the Government lose control of Brexit. After going down to another three figure defeat, …
THERESA May’s new Brexit defeat represents a catastrophic failure by a Parliament of pygmies.
Mrs May’s deal isn’t great. But it would have got Brexit done, as a weary population desperately wants. It would have killed off a hideously divisive new referendum and more paralysing uncertainty.For all her admirable resilience Mrs May has made fundamental errors. Not least on Monday when she secured changes from the EU then oversold them on live TV, only to have her own Attorney General knock them down.
How they whooped like excited kids as Mrs May’s defeat became clear. To them Britain’s grave plight is just a tribal game. Their stock was already low. Their conduct at this critical moment in our history has shamed Parliament.The former Foreign Secretary also likened the PM and the Attorney General to “Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden”, saying: “They have sewed an apron of fig leaves that does nothing to conceal the embarrassment and indignity of the UK”.
The DUP urged the PM to go back to Brussels to demand a better escape from the backstop during a final EU summit before Brexit next week. ERG chairman Jacob Rees Mogg said the “consensus view” was that the Commons would fail to stop a no deal Brexit - even if MPs vote in favour of ruling it out in today’s vote.
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