Theresa May’s government launched into last-minute negotiations to quell a Brexit rebellion by her lawmakers. But the prime minister is still facing a knife-edge vote on Tuesday that could determine the future of Brexit, and of her career.
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May hates this clause, known as the “meaningful vote” amendment, because she says it would tie her hands in negotiations. Brexit backers hate it because they see it as a tool to thwart the divorce. If the amendment is accepted, it would be another reason for Brexiters to want to replace May with one of their own.
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May urged her lawmakers to think about the message they were sending to the EU and begged them not to tie her hands in negotiations. Robert Buckland, the Remain-supporting solicitor-general, was more succinct as he stood alongside euroskeptic Brexit Minister Steve Baker:
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Boris Johnson has a new infrastructure idea: build a bridge between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain, the Telegraph reports. The Democratic Unionist Party is already in favor of the £15 billion idea and now Johnson is interested, the paper says. Is this a way of reassuring the DUP that whatever Brexit brings, they won’t get cut off? Johnson has history with infrastructure as a solution to Brexit – he’s also proposed a bridge to France.
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Jaguar Land Rover is moving all production of its Land Rover Discovery SUV to Slovakia from a plant near Birmingham, and retooling the Birmingham factory to make a new generation of electric cars, Kaye Wiggins reports.
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