Meaningful vote, meaningless changes - MPs defeat May's Brexit plan again
New European
By Jonathon Read
PUBLISHED: 19:22 12 March 2019 | UPDATED: 20:29 12 March 2019
The day of drama started with attorney general Geoffrey Cox declaring that little had changed in terms of legal assurances around the backstop, and saw Theresa May pleading with MPs to vote for her plan, despite losing her voice. She appeared to fail to win support from the Democratic Unionist Party or Tory Brexiteer MPs in the European Research Group.
By the end of the evening MPs had voted by 391 to 242 against her Brexit plan in a second “meaningful vote”. It was a majority of 149 against the plan. The spotlight now turns to MPs voting on a no-deal Brexit tomorrow which, if defeated, could lead to a vote on extending Article 50.
Best for Britain supporter David Lammy MP said: “This is yet another humiliating defeat for the most chaotic and destructive British government in living memory. “Today parliament has voted against Theresa May’s deal...The problem is Brexit itself. The fantasy promised to voters in 2016 is impossible. We simply cannot leave the EU but keep the benefits membership entails.”
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