Tomorrow's front page: Speaker John Bercow torpedoed Theresa May's EU deal - and stuck two fingers up to 17.4million Brexit voters
PRO-REMAIN Speaker John Bercow today derailed Theresa May's Brexit plan - banning the PM from holding a repeat Commons vote on her deal this week.
Ministers will now scramble to find a legal loophole which could allow them to bring the deal back to the Commons despite Mr Bercow's order. He said: "There has been much speculation over the past week about the possibility of the Government bringing before the house a motion on Brexit for another so-called meaningful vote.
"What the Government cannot legitimately do is to resubmit the same proposition, or substantially the same, as that of last week which was rejected by 149 votes."Veteran Eurosceptic Sir Bill Cash said the ruling makes an "enormous amount of sense", while Remainer Anna Soubry added: "This is what happens when you don't seek compromise and consensus from the beginning.
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