UK speaker blocks new vote on Brexit
John Bercow says the motion to get a vote on Boris Johnson’s deal would be posing the same question to parliament twice
21 October 2019 - 17:31
London — Britain’s parliamentary speaker John Bercow told the government on Monday it could not again try to get a vote on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal because it was posing the same question to parliament twice.
Instead, Bercow said, it could pursue the route of getting the legislation required for Britain’s departure from the EU through parliament first rather than having a straight “yes or no” vote on the agreement...
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