meaningful vote

30 months of contemptuous treatment of opposition parties means they’ll take one look at 117 Tory rebels and know PM’s days are numbered.

Though May has survived Tory coup, her deal is dead. She’ll be a zombie prime minister unless she puts it to MPs and then the people fast.

It makes sense for Labour to let May try, and fail, to tweak her deal. But letting uncertainty run any longer is bad for its supporters.

Running down the clock to force a choice between May’s deal and no deal is technically doable. But the politics of this are impossible.

Our quick guide to how things will unfold in the Commons ahead of the meaningful vote on Tuesday.

Three parliamentary defeats and an EU legal ruling puts government on ropes. Brexit end-game has begun and People’s Vote is clear answer.

Clever cross-party amendment rejects the deal, rejects crashing out and insists that MPs can change any new plan the government dreams up.

PM will again field questions from MPs on her deal this afternoon. Here are some forensic lines of questioning which expose its failings.

Government attempts to stop MPs from replacing May’s bad Brexit deal with alternative is all too typical of whole squalid Brexit process.

Brexiter wants PM to reach a Chequers-style deal, then kick her out, rip up her deal and go for an even harder Brexit.

Compromise over “meaningful vote” for MPs isn’t perfect. But it’s a good enough basis for winning a campaign to get a People’s Vote.

MPs must not allow May to turn Parliament into rubber stamp for what comes out of Brexit talks - even a miserable deal or no deal at all.