MPs will vote Wednesday on whether to pursue a no-deal Brexit.
Should MPs reject no deal on Wednesday, parliament will vote on Thursday over whether the government should ask the EU for an extension.This, though, is the extent of the government’s plan.no to an extension? What if the European Union rejects the extension request? What if the EU only offers a lengthy — or very short — extension? “To be honest, I don’t know,” said one senior government official.
But parliament, like the government — and the country at large — is split. There is no majority for a deal; no majority for no deal; no majority for withdrawing Article 50; and no majority for a second referendum.In the vote Tuesday, the prime minister could only muster 235 Conservative MPs to back her deal along with three Labour MPs and four independents.
“I accept that in the short term [no deal] is the more difficult road,” he told MPs. “But in the end it’s the only safe route out of the abyss and the only safe path to self-respect.”The alternative is “humiliation and the subordination of our democracy.” But she warned MPs that voting against no deal and for an extension would not solve the problem they all face and indicated that she has not yet given her deal its last rites. “I still believe there is a majority in the house,” she said.“The EU will want to know what use we mean to make of such an extension,” she warned. “This house will have to answer that question.
By opening up the prospect of revocation of Article 50 or a second referendum, May is hoping to pile pressure on her Conservative backbenchers. Her closest aides pointedly refused to rule out bringing the deal back to MPs for a third time.
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