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From: BobbyD
Recipient: redsturgeon
I'm not sure if your answer is correct, but it is certainly not uncontested
Pity it's impossible to add the view of an 'expert' to the replies...
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a quick thread on my points: I would be very surprised if the Speaker allowed the Government’s ‘meaningful vote’ motion today (caveat - I have been ‘very surprised’ by John Bercow before...)...
... my interpretation is that the House’s ‘same question’ rule applies (you can’t ask the House the same question twice in one session). The wording of the motion today is not exactly the same as Saturday’s but it is ‘the same fundamental proposition’...
... There has been criticism of the government for not pushing the motion to a division on Saturday. But the wording of the govt’s motion was removed by the Letwin amdt and replaced with text saying the House withholds approval until the WAB passes. The House was then asked...
.. to agree the motion ‘as amended’. It did so without a division. The govt presumably decided not to push the decision to a division because that would just have been a rerun of the previous division. All those who’d voted for Letwin would have voted for the amended motion...
... It was no longer possible to have a vote on the original text of the motion and test support for the deal because it had been removed by the amendment. That was what the House decided to do with the motion and I can’t see why the decision would be different today..."
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