The Labour leader doesn’t really want another referendum, he wants an election – and striking a deal with the prime minister makes one less likely.
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Brexit negotiations – Analyses
American companies still face enormous uncertainty about how they’ll be doing business in the UK and EU in the coming years, particularly as the April 12 Brexit deadline draws closer.
After the initial relief that the party leaders were working together comes the realisation that they both risk splitting their parties if they strike a deal.
It’s easy, now, to think of this as Theresa May’s story – but Thatcher, Blair and Cameron all played their part.
One wrong turn after another has left the British prime minister cornered.
After a full day with her top team, the prime minister says she wants to thrash out a deal that both she and the opposition can live with.
MPs were never expected to produce a concrete decision in their first round of indicative votes. There is some material to work with now.
How parliament and executive came to be locked in their Brexit impasse.
Northern Ireland and Scotland don’t seem to have heard the rallying cry, despite being more Remain than England.
E-petitions are an important democratic tool but they need to be part of something bigger to really change things.
Decades of consensus building have enabled the EU27 to show remarkable resilience and flexibility, despite chaos on the UK side
The prime minister was wrong to absolve herself of blame for this crisis, but a solution can only be found if parliamentarians work together.
Just a week after her government said seeking a short extension would be a wrong move, the prime minister has folded.
It looks like the prime minister will try for a third vote on her deal before asking the EU for a Brexit delay.
Even if the UK decides it can withdraw from the Irish backstop unilaterally under international law, there will be consequences.
A series of amendments failed, but the prime minister must now appeal for more time.
MPs can’t actually prevent no deal with this vote, but that doesn’t make it meaningless.
A last minute meeting with the EU couldn’t save her universally detested deal. Now there’s less than three weeks to Brexit – and no one knows what to do.
It now looks increasingly certain that the deadline for a deal will be extended beyond March 29. But what happens after that?
Even if parliament votes to delay Brexit beyond March 29, the EU27 would have to unanimously agree. Would they?
The ongoing policy uncertainty affects both ends of the economy: consumers and producers.
The Labour leader has cautiously backed a fresh vote – and that’s all parliament needs to get the debate going.
The Conservative Party might not be able to survive the fallout if May worked with the opposition against her own MPs.
Majority thinks Brussels is playing hardball – but a generational divide is apparent, as so often in the Brexit debate.
Brussels is certainly firm on its red lines, but it’s not as intransigent as many in the UK portray it to be.