With three days to go until the vote on Theresa May’s deal, this had been the point in the process that No 10 hoped the Whips would be closing in on the swing rebels. Instead the number of rebels is growing with every day.
This evening Will Quince has resigned as a PPS – urging the Prime Minister to go back to the EU and renegotiate the detail so it becomes something MPs can support. Now Quince is no household name but he is also not an ardent Brexiteer or an ardent Remainer. The fact that he has resigned shows how MPs sense a sinking ship and have no plans to be attached to a doomed deal which has little chance of passing. It used to be the case that a job in government was enough to entice loyalty from ambitious MPs.
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