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[b]D-Day for Boris as Parliament debates and votes on the Prime Minister's new leaving agreement[/b]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50092301
MP's are sitting today (Saturday) in order to debate and vote on what Johnson calls the final agreement before Britain is due to leave the E:U on October 31st.
The BBC reports that this vote will be close and that Johnson seems confident of winning. But doesn't really shed much light on why they think so. Given the fact that Johnson suspended his majority after the last one.
One wonders just what exactly he'll have had to promise the 'dissenters' to suddenly make them change their minds from 'Remainers' to 'Leavers'.
There are 287 Conservative MP's. In order to win the vote Johnson will need 320. So assuming everybody follows 'party lines' it's going to be interesting to see where and why 33 non-Tories would agree to a deal which is virtually the same as Theresa May's which was soundly rejected three times in The Commons.
The fate of the whole country and probably an entire generation could hang on who these 33 are and why they vote the way they do.
Also worrying is the number of MP's who will vote today but have already declared they won't be standing for election next year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnews
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50092301
MP's are sitting today (Saturday) in order to debate and vote on what Johnson calls the final agreement before Britain is due to leave the E:U on October 31st.
The BBC reports that this vote will be close and that Johnson seems confident of winning. But doesn't really shed much light on why they think so. Given the fact that Johnson suspended his majority after the last one.
One wonders just what exactly he'll have had to promise the 'dissenters' to suddenly make them change their minds from 'Remainers' to 'Leavers'.
There are 287 Conservative MP's. In order to win the vote Johnson will need 320. So assuming everybody follows 'party lines' it's going to be interesting to see where and why 33 non-Tories would agree to a deal which is virtually the same as Theresa May's which was soundly rejected three times in The Commons.
The fate of the whole country and probably an entire generation could hang on who these 33 are and why they vote the way they do.
Also worrying is the number of MP's who will vote today but have already declared they won't be standing for election next year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnews