Labour piled the pressure on the Tories over Brexit yesterday, winning the right to debate Article 50 from Theresa May while also submitting 170 questions to her government on leaving the EU. This represents a significant climbdown from the government’s previous position that there would be “no running commentary” on negotiations.

May accepted Labour’s case for a parliamentary debate on the terms on which she’ll trigger Article 50, though she stopped short of endorsing the call for a vote altogether. Emily Thornberry told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the opposition would not let ministers “go into a locked room and come out with some plan that they want to keep secret”. Continue reading →