Meaningful Vote

02.02.2019 Brexit

After the Brady Amendment, where next for Brexit? Even now, there is no majority for a Brexit Deal anywhere in sight

The House of Commons adopted two Amendments to its Brexit motion on Tuesday this week – the Brady Amendment to replace the Northern Ireland Backstop with “alternative arrangements”, and the Spelman/Dromey Amendment against a No Deal Brexit but lacking a

17.01.2019 Brexit

Brexit – where now? The flow diagrams

Looking for new diagrams? There is a whole new series from May 2019 onwards here! Diagrams as featured by The New York Times! I have tried to make sense of Brexit through a series of flow diagrams that have evolved

16.12.2018 Brexit

What the 4 major events in the past week mean for Brexit

Even by the standards of the two and a half turbulent years since the Brexit referendum, the last 7 days have been quite something. Four major events shaped the week, and will shape what happens to Brexit now and –

26.11.2018 Brexit

Why it might make good tactical sense for the Tories to oust Theresa May after the “Meaningful Vote”

Theresa May stumbles on. Disliked by all in equal measure, she nevertheless has managed to survive through an awful election result in 2017, to get a Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration signed off in Brussels and, most recently, has