Norway option

MPs who don’t want to crash out, but aren’t ready to back a People’s Vote, dream of a deal that could command cross-party support. Dream on.

May’s cross-party meetings, Labour plan for more votes, campaigns for “Norway”: it’s all just can-kicking. MPs must now back People’s Vote.

To avoid crashing out with no deal and to get a People’s Vote, we’ll need extra time. But there's a right way and a wrong way to do this.

It’s great that MPs want to assert control of parliamentary process if they reject May’s deal. But the way they do it really matters.

Coalition of pro-European MPs behind recent government defeats could ultimately be the grouping that secures a People’s Vote.

No patriot could back the honest form. And no honest politician could back the sneaky one.

Oliver Letwin is latest Tory to push a Norway-style Brexit. That’s tricky to pull off, would be expensive and turn us into rule-taker.

Nick Boles’ plan to copy Norway for a few years and then flip to Canada won’t work for legal and political reasons.