The main takeaway from the confusion surrounding today’s meaningful vote amendment is that no-one knows what it means. Although the government technically successfully defeated the Lords amendment calling for a meaningful vote on the final deal, confusion reigns over who is the winner: the Remainers or the Brexiteers.
The would-be Tory Remain rebels are convinced that they were assured by the Prime Minister herslef that by voting with the government they would be awarded with a concession that would give them some form of binding vote on the next steps were Parliament to reject the government’s Brexit deal.
They believe that this involves the first two parts of Dominic Grieve’s amendment being enacted: (a) in the event of parliament rejecting the final Brexit deal, ministers would have seven days to set out a fresh approach (b) in the case of talks with the EU breaking down, they would have until 30 November to try to strike a new deal.
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