See you next week…
That’s two-thirds of a Saturday we won’t get back.
— Mark Austin (@markaustintv) October 19, 2019
3.15pm
Incredible reaction to the Letwin amendment passing at the #PeoplesVote rally in parliament square pic.twitter.com/PIwdK7SZnP
— Abby Tomlinson (@twcuddleston) October 19, 2019
We're currently having a debate in Parliament as to how we can ensure the British Prime Minister complies with the law after he just said he wouldn't.
Our country is irredeemably fucked.
— Graham Lithgow (@grahamlithgow) October 19, 2019
Tory benches have now emptied….. pic.twitter.com/dVPIsOLx6l
— norman smith (@BBCNormanS) October 19, 2019
Johnson says he will not negotiate an extension with EU.
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) October 19, 2019
Crikey https://t.co/q7zf2Q8A8M
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) October 19, 2019
Letwin wins. Boris Johnson has to ask Brussels for another Brexit delay……………
— norman smith (@BBCNormanS) October 19, 2019
Boris Johnson loses Parliament vote:
-For delay: 322
-Against: 306
-Majority: 16-8th significant Commons #Brexit defeat for PM
-Maintains 100% record#BrexitVote— Paul Johnson (@paul__johnson) October 19, 2019
THE FUCKING AYES HAVE IT pic.twitter.com/Ju4A7KotF6
— Sweary Bercow (@BercowSweary) October 19, 2019
Brexit: DUP MPs help Letwin amendment over the line forcing Boris Johnson to seek extension with EUhttps://t.co/tuaCA7qKeQ pic.twitter.com/XLovfCCoMQ
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) October 19, 2019
It really is absolutely gobsmackingly incredible how utterly irrelevant Labour are in this whole shitshow.
Like a D-plot in a feature movie that you wish had been cut from the final edit so you could spend more time seeing what’s going on in the main threads.
— Kris Nixon (@belfastbarman) October 19, 2019
Niche alert – if Letwin amendment passes, it is too late for the govt to pull the main vote on the deal, but it can be 'negatived' – ie if the govt doesn't provide tellers or no one shouts 'aye' on the second call (yes I know) then the vote could just come to a halt
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) October 19, 2019
You're not even bothering to pretend anymore, are you?
— Dаn̈ıel Раrslοw (@pieist) October 19, 2019
2pm
Thread:
And all for what? Not Brexit. This is because we're leaving the single market and customs union. This is all because of an obsession with ending free movement, which wasn't even a problem in the first place. The absurd short-sighted, cowardly idiocy of it.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) October 19, 2019
Incredible to watch the sea of people on the #PeoplesVoteMarch as we take part in the #BrexitDebate.
As Nelson Mandela said, "the real makers of history are the ordinary men and women of our country"
Politicians have got to give the public the final say.pic.twitter.com/m4fs4PdkDa
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) October 19, 2019
"Yes, we want to deliver Brexit," says former PM Theresa May
"If this Parliament did not mean it, then it is guilty of the most egregious con trick on the British people"https://t.co/gQkqnzl6R4 #BrexitDebate pic.twitter.com/zo2CwtCRgZ
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 19, 2019
London march calls for 'final say' over Brexit deal https://t.co/1zv23xTuGd
— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 19, 2019
Our UK team has been investigating suspicious Twitter activity since Boris Johnson’s announcement on Thursday. Some depressing results. https://t.co/BP9cdVahba
— Claire Wardle (@cward1e) October 19, 2019
Nigel Dodds has just been led out of the Chamber by Boris Johnson’s PPS James Heappey…
— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) October 19, 2019
"This is middle England hysteria!" Sobs man who voted yes in the middle England hysteria referendum https://t.co/Mq93hZOd2F
— Ruairi (@HumbleRuairi) October 19, 2019
DUP East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson: “We would be failing in our duty if we did not use every strategy"
— Amanda Ferguson (@AmandaFBelfast) October 19, 2019
1pm
We're still here
Because Brexit
Is still CRAP#StopBrexit #SODEM#LetUsBeHeard pic.twitter.com/SePxQrLmOr— Steve Bray #FBPE #StopBrexit #RevokeArticle50 (@snb19692) October 19, 2019
Something has gone badly wrong in UK politics when a deal with such profound and historic implications is winning approval on this basis. #Brexit https://t.co/pDlgXWc7GU
— Michael Peel (@Mikepeeljourno) October 19, 2019
Even if he doesn't quite win today it feels increasingly as though Boris Johnson will win his Brexit within days. The Remainers have been outmanoeuvred. Their only way to stop this was No Confidence vote and National Unity Govt – and they couldn't agree amongst themselves.
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) October 19, 2019
Keir Starmer’s speech is eloquent, rich in evidence and measured argument, and therefore hugely irritating to all the MPs who have decided that today is the day to throw in the towel.
— Matthew d'Ancona (@MatthewdAncona) October 19, 2019
The DUP and @BorisJohnson are going into a huddle, I am told. But my DUP sources tell me it is “a bit late” for the PM to reach out to them
— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 19, 2019
All DUP MPs have left the chamber – lots of reports they are meeting PM, unclear right now what is going on but DUP know backing Letwin amendment would be tricky decision too..
— Jayne McCormack (@BBCJayneMcC) October 19, 2019
Loyalists in N Ireland say they are planning civil unrest if the Brexit deal goes ahead, with a "large public meeting" due to be held next week to decide next steps
— James Rothwell (@JamesERothwell) October 19, 2019
We’re being run by clowns in a clown car with no brakes https://t.co/fsmYty4PYs
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) October 19, 2019
12.00 noon
BREAKING: Boris Johnson confirms the promise he has made to Brexit extremists in his Party – that if no trade deal is ratified before 31 Dec 2020, the UK will crash out with NO DEAL.
"I certainly would not want to extend beyond the end of next year." pic.twitter.com/3wymyqcABw
— Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) October 19, 2019
So it’s official
PM’s Deal is a route to No Deal
PM just confirmed that he *won’t* seek extension to transition period if negotiations on future relationship haven’t finished at end of next year
No wonder ERG support – it’s a Brexit led by the right, the reckless & the rich
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) October 19, 2019
I asked @BorisJohnson in what way it strengthens the union of the U.K. for #Scotland to have foisted upon it a #Brexit it did not vote for. Predictably he had no answer #Brexit #SuperSaturday #indyref2 pic.twitter.com/FguvNtLZXa
— Joanna Cherry QC MP (@joannaccherry) October 19, 2019
Today’s most fundamental point. If, in 2016, voters had been presented with a choice of status quo or a deal which would remove all guarantees on protections, threaten key industries, put up economic barriers in our own country and make us 5% poorer, how would they have voted? https://t.co/A4D6t4otrG
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) October 19, 2019
As @BorisJohnson seeks to ‘reassure’ MPs today whether workers’ rights for @UKLabour or delayed no deal to ERG, anyone tempted to believe him should look around and see those who have har his reassurances before. May. DUP. There is nobody and nothing he won’t chuck under a bus
— Alastair PEOPLE’S VOTE Campbell (@campbellclaret) October 19, 2019
Deeply offensive of the Brexit Sec to use the memory of Mo Mowlem in the chamber to urge us to vote to leave the EU. Mo was a passionate European who believed it was in all our interests to stick together. She would never have stopped fighting for us to #Remain #PeoplesVote 🇪🇺🇬🇧
— Emily Thornberry (@EmilyThornberry) October 19, 2019
This is a pretty devastating moment for the DUP, delivered by their erstwhile friend. They have been insisting that all decisions must be made by majority vote… apart from when they don’t like the decision pic.twitter.com/e4DaemHx62
— PadraigMacLochlainn (@PadraigMacL) October 19, 2019
— Newton Emerson (@NewtonEmerson) October 19, 2019
Brexiteer Baker tells Conservative faction to vote for Johnson's deal https://t.co/MZxIqoMZqh pic.twitter.com/yp0sg2yLPU
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 19, 2019
People are marching today to say we want our future back. My piece for @Independent ahead of the @peoplesvote_hq march today https://t.co/QBHbnB6sMf
— Eddie Izzard (@eddieizzard) October 19, 2019
Latest in @TheAtlantic: If the US ambassador to the EU had not been distracted by corrupt schemes in Ukraine … maybe US interests would not go unspoken in most important EU negotiations in decades https://t.co/oLIpmfjopN
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 19, 2019
11.00am
This #Brexitdiagram & thread is everything we need for the day… (Up to a certain point anyway)
All hail @jonworth! https://t.co/gTTO3YeejZ— Katy Hayward (@hayward_katy) October 19, 2019
"Now is the time for this great House of Commons to come together and bring the country together"
Boris Johnson urges MPs to back his "new and better" Brexit dealhttps://t.co/gQkqnzl6R4 #SuperSaturday pic.twitter.com/za92BP8BLx
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 19, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn says Boris Johnson has made the Brexit withdrawal agreement "even worse"
The Labour leader says PM's deal "risks people's jobs, rights at work, our environment and our National Health Service"https://t.co/gQkqnzl6R4 #SuperSaturday pic.twitter.com/mqdmYW64ae
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 19, 2019
Johnson has broken virtually every past promise he has made on Brexit. How anyone could believe promises he makes now on workers’ rights or anything else is beyond me. ‘Caveat emptor’ should be the words ringing in ears of any Labour MP thinking of backing this deal.
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) October 19, 2019
"Northern Ireland 13, Scotland 0. That's the number of references to Northern Ireland in the statement – not one reference to Scotland."
The SNP's Ian Blackford says Boris Johnson's Brexit deal "would see Scotland shafted by this United Kingdom government." #SuperSaturday pic.twitter.com/xiQmPfsVBF
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) October 19, 2019
Theresa May’s face as Ian Blackford describes Boris Johnson’s deal as worse than hers is everything pic.twitter.com/KYybZNCttF
— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) October 19, 2019
Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says Boris Johnson does not want another Brexit referendum because he knows people would "reject his bad deal and chose to remain in the European Union"https://t.co/gQkqnzl6R4 #SuperSaturday pic.twitter.com/9dfkOxnIgb
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 19, 2019
Ken Clarke says he would support PM’s deal if whole UK could have same privileged access to EU markets as Northern Ireland. @BorisJohnson can’t and won’t give that commitment. So we can assume Clarke is now part of opposition to Johnson’s Brexit deal
— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 19, 2019
"I have selected Amendment A in the name of Sir Oliver Letwin"
John Bercow chooses to hold a vote on the Letwin amendment, the government says it will send MPs home before the main Brexit deal vote if it passeshttps://t.co/gQkqnzl6R4 #SuperSaturday pic.twitter.com/uZYf8nRH5B
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 19, 2019
I've made a really shit sign but it's still better than Boris Johnson's deal and probably took more effort pic.twitter.com/lSgtKKwcd8
— Otto English (@Otto_English) October 19, 2019
9.20am
Prime Minister to speak soon…
Boris Johnson’s deal might well pass today. But had Theresa May proposed exactly the same thing, word for word, he would have opposed it and so would much of the ERG. It was always about internal power in the Conservative Party. Piece from me. https://t.co/JFGGvc0WMj
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 19, 2019
Govt will pull Brexit vote if Letwin amendment passes #supersaturday
— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) October 19, 2019
They can't "pull the vote". The vote will happen, the government will just have lost it.
They can walk off the pitch, but they don't get to take the ball away. https://t.co/LsYDgWCNCK
— Robert Hutton (@RobDotHutton) October 19, 2019
The chronology of votes tomorrow is very important.
Selected amendments are voted on first. If a selected amendment passes, the Commons then votes on a main motion *as amended* rather than the original motion. (1/x)
— Graeme Cowie (@woodstockjag) October 18, 2019
Looking for a summary of the changes to the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland?
Here's a graphic from @hayward_katy and me. pic.twitter.com/Sa9SB7fiVA
— David Phinnemore (@DPhinnemore) October 19, 2019
'Saturday night leaver': how the papers covered the build-up to Johnson's Brexit vote https://t.co/SEUY5mBUXg
— Media Guardian (@mediaguardian) October 19, 2019
The Overnight Note 