• As that article points out, if she thinks she's got the votes, she can force it through, by first voting to suspend the standing order, and then re-issuing the motion.

    She only has one chance though - I imagine the very same people who would vote for the deal, would vote to suspend the standing order.

    If she calls a vote on the standing order, and it fails, I wonder if she can then get parliament to vote on the standing order again later? Same rule may apply about only voting on the same thing once.

    To me this means she really only has one more shot at this - and she has to know its going to get through to call the required votes....doesn't look like it will happen before Thursday so off the EU she goes with nothing anyway.

    It is so messy now.

  • You might expect there to be consequences if she were to try this approach only to have it fail (i.e. lost the vote). But, our world has long since stopped being normal, so she'll probably just carry on as if nothing had happened...

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