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Why won’t MPs be voting on a Final Say referendum this week?

As things stand, there are currently 283 MPs who support a second referendum, which means there are 355 against. So it makes sense for supporters of giving the people another vote on Brexit to bide their time

Tuesday 12 March 2019 14:01 GMT
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And doesn’t Jeremy Corbyn?
And doesn’t Jeremy Corbyn?

This may be the crunch week for Brexit, although there are two more weeks after it until Friday 29 March, when we are supposed to leave the EU under Article 50 of the Treaty.

The fixed point is that there will be a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday on the latest version of the prime minister’s deal.

It will be a vote on a motion to approve the withdrawal agreement, the political declaration on the future relationship with the EU, and presumably a codicil on the temporary nature of the guarantee of an open border in Ireland.

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