This week opened with the cautious optimism of a third meaningful vote passing, and ends, as our cover depicts, with Theresa May begging the EU for an extension.
After John Bercow’s ruling that May’s Brexit deal cannot be voted on a third time, unless with ‘substantive changes’, the chances of May passing her deal before March 29 seemed further than ever.
Now, this week has shown that Brexit is dictated at home by warring factions in the Commons, and dictated abroad by the EU.
Even though the EU has given May a third chance at her deal, these past weeks lay bare the government’s inability to run the government, and Brexit is on the verge of being taken over by the Commons.
Has May been reduced to nothing more than the semblance of a leader?
James Forsyth is on the podcast this week talking about his cover
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