Theresa May postpones meaningful vote on final Brexit deal
Source: The Guardian
MPs may have to wait until 12 March for a meaningful vote on the governments final Brexit deal, Theresa May has said, in an intervention which will deepen splits in her cabinet.
The prime minister confirmed on Sunday that she would not hold the crucial vote this week as she flew to Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, where she is due to discuss Brexit on the margins of an EU summit with Arab leaders.
It comes in a critical week for May, when many in the House of Commons had been expecting to vote on her deal.
Without a reworked withdrawal agreement to bring back to MPs, the prime minister has promised to table an amendable motion which will allow backbenchers another chance to try to block a no-deal Brexit.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/24/theresa-may-postpones-meaningful-vote-on-final-brexit-deal
Ever seen the fourth quarter of a football game where one team clearly wants to run out the clock?
blm
(113,136 posts)To stop Brexit when it was clearly the result of a Russian plot.
cstanleytech
(26,364 posts)that (stupidly) voted for it.