‘So… was that a yes or a no?’ A number of MPs on the Liaison Committee asked the Prime Minister that question during her evidence question today. They weren’t doing it to make a point: Theresa May spent most of the hour and a half stubbornly answering a set of questions that she had clearly decided in advance with lines also decided in advance, regardless of whether those questions were very close at all to the ones being asked in the Committee room.
She was most opaque on the question of whether Parliament will get a vote on Brexit, circling around the issue by listing the opportunities for MPs to discuss Brexit. None of these involved a vote, but as the Prime Minister mentioned the debates, statements and votes on the Great Repeal Bill that were being provided, she did so with a tone of frustration as though she couldn’t quite believe that Parliament was annoyed it wasn’t being given a vote when she was giving it lots of other things instead.
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