David Davis is stating the obvious on the timing of a Brexit deal vote

David Davis’s revelation that Parliament may not get a vote on a Brexit deal until after Britain has actually left the EU has provoked a flurry of criticism. The Government has been accused of railroading Parliament and treating MPs with ‘contempt’. It’s an ‘undemocratic disgrace’, says Open Britain. Yet Davis is only really stating the obvious that there can’t be a vote on a deal that doesn’t exist. It’s also a simple matter of timing that, under the terms of Article 50, Britain will leave the EU in March 2019 – two years after May pulled the trigger. What isn’t guaranteed – especially given the lack of progress so far – is that a deal will materialise before then, if at all. So it seems something of a moot point to blame the Government for blocking a hypothetical vote on a hypothetical agreement.

Parliament may not vote on a Brexit deal until after Britain leaves EU, David Davis says https://t.co/b7QEPj0Mv1