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Twelve Brexit lessons from today’s drama in the Commons

20 October 2019

3:46 AM

20 October 2019

3:46 AM

Here are the important points about today’s emergency vote on Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal – which turned into a vote on whether the Prime Minister should write to the EU requesting a three-month Brexit delay.

First, Johnson would have won if Northern Ireland’s ten DUP, his supposed partners in government, had not voted against him.

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