It is time for Labour and Tory MPs to wake up and see the Brexit reality staring them in the face.
Which is — after tonight’s demonstration that the government doesn’t have the votes to push through a Brexit plan of any description with simply its MPs and those of Northern Ireland’s DUP — all MPs face a simple choice.
Forget the idea floated by Olly Robbins in a Brussels bar of a 21-month Brexit delay – which was overheard by my ITV News colleague Angus Walker. I cannot find a single senior serious person in or around the EU who thinks it is going to happen.
Truthfully they regard it as an example of eccentric British humour.
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