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British prime minister Boris Johnson: Downing Street officials have said it is “laughable” to think that he would stand aside if MPs vote down the government. Photograph: Simon Dawson/EPA
Can a no-deal Brexit be prevented by the UK’s parliament?
  • UK
  • August 6, 2019, 09:49

After less than a month in office Boris Johnson’s nascent government is squaring up for a no-confidence vote, attempts to halt Brexit and possibly a g(...)

Conservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson at Westminster. “No to time limits or unilateral escape hatches or all these elaborate devices, glosses, codicils and so on that you could apply to the backstop.” Photograph: Getty Images
Johnson rules out backstop even with time limit or exit clause; Hunt says it ‘is dead’

Fears of a no-deal Brexit rose in London and Brussels on Tuesday after both candidates for the Conservative leadership said the Northern backstop must(...)

Dominic Grieve told an audience in Dublin that the chances of a border poll on Irish unification ‘go up’ if Britain leaves the EU without a deal in October. Photograph: Simon Carswell
Brexit: ‘crash-out’ likely to trigger crisis over North, says Grieve

A “crash-out Brexit” would make a political crisis over the future status of Northern Ireland “more likely”, the Conservative MP and former UK attorne(...)

Boris Johnson insists he is not bluffing about being prepared to leave the EU without a deal. Photograph: Frank Augstein/Pool via Bloomberg
Northern Irish Bill could be used as vehicle to thwart no-deal Brexit

MPs at Westminster could use a Northern Ireland Bill on Monday to block Boris Johnson from suspending parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit in (...)

Sir Graham Brady’s amendment to the Brexit withdrawal agreement calls for the backstop to be replaced with “alternative arrangements”. File photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
May urges party to support move for alternative to backstop
  • UK
  • January 28, 2019

British prime minister Theresa May on Monday asked her party to support a proposal which calls for the Northern Irish backstop in her Brexit deal with(...)

Labour MP Yvette Cooper: Her amendment could oblige the UK government to postpone Brexit until the end of the year if the prime minister fails to win MPs’ approval for a deal by the end of next month. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA
Commons may vote to approve PM’s deal if backstop time limit is added

MPs at Westminster could vote next week on an amendment calling for UK prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal to be approved on condition that a tim(...)

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve speaking during a convention on a second EU referendum at the Emmanuel Centre in central London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Grieve urges May to delay exit from EU if she loses vote

A leading Conservative rebel has called on Theresa May to delay Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union if she loses next week’s vote on her Brex(...)

Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, who said on Tuesday the vote showed Theresa May’s government no longer commanded a majority in the House. Photograph: PA Wire
MPs secure the right to greater control over Brexit process

The House of Commons has voted to give MPs the right to direct Theresa May’s government on what course to take if her Brexit deal is rejected next wee(...)

MPs line up to read out the vote in the House of Commons. Photograph: PA Wire
Brexit: May sees off backbench rebellion over ‘meaningful vote’

British prime minister Theresa May has seen off a rebellion by backbench Conservative MPs over the role of parliament in the event of a no-deal Brexit(...)

Theresa May was accused of breaking “the promise she made to her own backbenchers and forced this issue back on the table”. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA
House of Commons set for Brexit amendment showdown

Theresa May has set the stage for a major parliamentary confrontation over Brexit on Wednesday after she ruled out accepting an amendment to the EU wi(...)

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