Brexit Letwin Agreement

After voting on the third vote and the approval of the Cooper-Letwin Act at third reading by 313-312, May and her cabinet considered the possibility of bringing the withdrawal agreement back to Parliament for a fourth vote. [114] In mid-May, May said she would present the withdrawal agreement to Parliament in the first week of June. [115] Due to massive opposition to the new agreement, May postponed publication from 24 May to 4 June and subsequently resigned as Prime Minister. [116] In July 2017, David Jones, Minister of State for leaving the European Union, told the House of Commons that he expected Parliament`s vote on the Brexit deal with the EU to take place “before the debates and votes of the European Parliament on the final agreement”. Asked what would happen if MPs and members of the House of Lords decided they did not like the deal, Mr Jones said: “The vote will be either to accept the deal. Or there will be no agreement. [13] At a withdrawal meeting of the European Union`s special committee in October, Labour MP Seema Malhotra Davis asked: “The vote of our Parliament, the British Parliament, could be after March 2019? to which Davis replied, “Yes, it could be. [14] This has been criticised by Labour MPs and some Conservative MPs. [15] [16] On the weekend before the amendment was voted in the House of Commons, the leaders of the political party group for eu-Ue relations signed a statement saying: “Members of all parties have already given valuable control to the EU withdrawal law and we have forced the government to make some concessions. But it won`t matter if we can`t really vote on the withdrawal agreement that the government is negotiating with the European Union. [20] [21] All proposed amendments to the application were denied. The proposal itself was then rejected with a 303-259 lead, in part because of the abstentions of the Conservative research group, which objected to the demand appearing to exclude an EU exit without a withdrawal agreement. [88] In his statement of 12 February, the Prime Minister reaffirmed his objective of having a second “useful vote” on a withdrawal agreement.

She indicated that if this were not the case on February 26, the government would make a new statement to Parliament on the government`s progress and would introduce a amended motion to that declaration, which is expected to be put to a vote on February 27. The government rejected the Lords` proposal to give the House of Commons the power to decide the next steps for the government if the withdrawal agreement is rejected by Parliament. [35] In accordance with the motion of 27 February, the defeat of the second significant vote means that the government must immediately submit a request to withdraw from the European Union without a withdrawal agreement.