This is what Labour’s amendment says and how it gives parliament and the public a way through on Brexit

Ben Gelblum - 22 January 2019

The Labour Party has proposed an amendment to Theresa May’s Commons vote next week on her Plan B – lambasted by all asides as being remarkably similar to her Plan A for EU withdrawal.

Despite a record defeat for her EU withdrawal Bill last week, Theresa May insisted she will seek another reframing of the backstop uncertainty to make her Brexit deal more palatable.

Jeremy Corbyn welcomed Theresa May’s U-turn on charging EU citizens to confirm their settled status in the UK, but insisted yesterday that the Prime Minister “face reality, and accept her deal has been comprehensively defeated.”... See more