Prime Minister Theresa May is now addressing lawmakers in the House of Commons — with what sounds like a particularly hoarse voice — ahead of a vote on her Brexit deal.
Theresa May should call election if she loses vote: senior Conservative MP
Conservative MP Charles Walker, a member of the backbench 1922 committee, says Theresa May should call a general election if she loses tonight’s vote.
“The Prime Minister could announce by the end of this week we need a general election,” Walker told BBC’s the World at One.
“It is not sustainable, the current situation in Parliament,” he said. “We have to make a decision tonight and it has to be to let this deal pass.”
Hardline Brexiteer group says May’s assurances do not deliver “legally binding changes”
The hardline Brexiteer European Research Group’s “star chamber” has released the conclusions from its own legal analysis of Prime Minister Theresa May’s revised Brexit deal, including assurances on the Irish backstop agreement.
“Yesterday’s documents considered individually and collectively do not deliver ‘legally binding changes’ to the WA (Withdrawal Agreement) or to the (backstop) Protocol,” the group said in a statement.
“They fail to fulfill the commitment made by Government to the House in response to the Brady amendment ‘to obtain legally binding changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.'”
The group added that eleventh-hour agreements May made in Strasbourg with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker “do not provide any exit mechanism from the Protocol which is under the UK’s control.”
