James Forsyth James Forsyth

Brexit in a spin

Theresa May finally has a plan, but does she have the votes to pass it?

issue 14 July 2018

‘The numbers just don’t stack up,’ one cabinet minister wearily declared to me on Monday night. This is, perhaps, the single most important fact in British politics today: Theresa May does not currently have the votes to pass her Brexit plan even if she could get the European Union to accept it.

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