MPs will today debate an amendable Government motion on the Brexit deal, which gives MPs a chance to put their favoured outcomes to a vote.
The Prime Minister could table secondary legislation which must go through the Commons and Lords by Friday to remove the date of March 29 from Brexit legislation.
Theresa May’s effective deputy David Lidington has promised to introduce a process for MPs to debate potential Brexit outcomes over the following two weeks.
Options for the “indicative votes” could include remaining in the single market and customs union, a second EU referendum, or a no deal.
This morning, though, the Cabinet will meet and May is expected to be confronted by 11 ministers who want her to announce she is quitting. According to reports in the Sunday Times they will threaten mass resignations if she refuses to go.
If May clings on, she will decide this week whether to hold a third meaningful vote on her withdrawal agreement. There have been suggestions she could hold this after the indicative votes in a last ditch bid to get hardline Brexiteers to back her deal rather than face the possibility of “Norway style” soft Brexit.
There would then be the matter of whether Commons’ Speaker John Bercow would allow May’s deal to be voted on for a third time after he said he was opposed to a third vote unless what MPs were to decide on had substantially changed from the second meaningful vote.
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