Yes, we’ve thrown the wedding ring at the EU. But divorce isn’t inevitable | Helen Mountfield

Is the best alternative to a bad deal really a no-deal Brexit? No: the best alternative is to change our minds and stay - and we can if we want to

As the storm clouds gather over Brexit, the EU withdrawal bill has been delayed a second time while the government tries to persuade backbench Tories to revoke their support for amendments that would allow MPs to block a "no deal" Brexit. The ever-sane Conservative MPs Dominic Grieve and Anna Soubry have put their names to an amendment that would provide that any final deal must be approved by a separate act of parliament. This is more than parliament parking its constitutional tanks on the government's lawn: it means that if, as seems increasingly likely, the only option on offer is a disastrous, no-deal Brexit, MPs can require the government to think again.

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