There are eight potential options that could be included in the indicative votes.
What is an indicative vote?
If MPs had rejected the Letwin plan, she had promised to provide Government time for a similar procedure led by ministers.But she said she was ‘sceptical’ about the process and would not be bound by its outcome, which she warned could produce ‘contradictory outcomes or no outcome at all’.
However, Mrs May’s effective deputy David Lidington is understood to have floated the possibility of using a different system which would guarantee a result. This could involve an alternative vote, under which MPs would number options in order of preference, with votes redistributed as the least popular are eliminated, or exhaustive votes, with MPs taking part in a series of rounds of voting as defeated options are removed one-by-one from the list.It is a very rare parliamentary procedure.
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