Minister’s comments come before Commons vote that PM is widely expected to lose
Ps could damage faith in democracy by failing to back Theresa May’s deal on Tuesday night, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, has said, quoting the Game of Thrones slogan “winter is coming”. Gove, a leading figure in the leave campaign during the 2016
referendum, said he believed the public would see a vote against the
deal as MPs attempting to frustrate Brexit
– though most of May’s most vocal opponents in her own party are hard
Brexiters. Brexit deal: how will the Westminster factions vote?“If we
don’t vote for the deal tonight, in the words of Jon Snow,
‘winter is coming’,” Gove said, citing the motto of the prominent Stark
family in the HBO fantasy TV series, which predicts the coming of a
frozen army of the undead.“I think if we don’t vote for the deal tonight
we will do damage to
our democracy by saying to people we are not going to implement a
Brexit, and the opportunity that all of us have to live up to our
democratic obligations is clear.”May is on course for a crushing defeat
in the House of Commons
inflicted by her own MPs. Guardian analysis pointed to a majority of
more than 200 MPs against the prime minister, more than 100 of her own
backbenchers. Overnight two more MPs, including the former international
trade
minister Greg Hands, said they could not vote for the deal as it
stood.Gove refused to predict a victory for May but said the real risk
for
Tory MPs was that a defeat would mean Brexit could not be delivered. “We
know there are people in the House of Commons and outside who have
never made their peace with this decision, who want to overturn it,” he
told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. The environment secretary also
defended the backstop arrangements to
prevent a hard border in Northern Ireland, which are opposed by many
Tory Brexiters and the DUP. “I think the whole point about the backstop
is that it’s deeply
uncomfortable for the EU,” he said. “The European Union said at the very
beginning of this process that there would be no cherry-picking, the
four freedoms of the single market were indivisible.” Instead, Gove
said, the government had “picked a whole bowl of
glistening cherries” including free access to the European market with
no tariffs and no quotas, but without paying into the EU budget or
accepting freedom of movement. “We are in a stronger position in the
backstop,” he said. Brexiters have been particularly angered by the
backstop, an
insurance arrangement to keep the UK in an effective customs union until
a solution is found to prevent a hard border in Northern Ireland,
because it does not have a firm end date and cannot be exited
unilaterally. Can you get May's Brexit deal through parliament? On
Monday, May issued one final call to parliament to back her,
urging MPs to “take a second look” at her deal, but there was little
evidence in the debate in the House of Commons that followed that many
had been convinced. The attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, will open the
final day of debate
on Tuesday, which will be closed by May herself. Voting is set to begin
on a series of amendments from 7pm. Downing Street has suggested the
prime minister will make an immediate statement after the vote result is
announced. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is expected to call a
no-confidence
vote in May shortly after the defeat. However, a Labour source said
even if that vote were lost, it would not mean an immediate endorsement
to campaign for a second referendum. The source said that the policy
agreed by Labour conference
identified a public vote as one of the options but said it was not
necessarily preferred. “Obviously we will judge how to deal with the
options and get the best result for the country on the basis of what
happens in parliament,” the source said. The shadow Brexit secretary,
Keir Starmer, spelled out the options,
which he said included pushing for a different Brexit deal that could
command support. “We need to create the space for that discussion about
the credible
alternatives,” he said. Pressed on his preference, he added: “We can’t
have no-deal and therefore we need to find a majority for something
else. Our party conference set out the option of a public vote, a second
referendum, and obviously that has got to be discussed.” The Labour MP
Hilary Benn bowed to pressure from party colleagues on Tuesday morning
and pulled his amendment
to the deal because a victory may have masked the true scale of the
prime minister’s defeat on the deal. The amendment, which would have
rejected May’s deal and a no-deal
Brexit, would have made it impossible for the vote on May’s deal itself
to go ahead if it had passed. Government whips had suggested MPs who
hoped to spare May the
humiliation of a three-figure defeat on her Brexit deal should vote for
the amendment submitted by Benn. Another amendment tabled by the Tory
backbencher Andrew Murrison
which aims to put a “sunset clause” on the backstop arrangements in the
withdrawal agreement is also gathering steam among Tory loyalists. The
amendment has been signed by a number of senior Tories, including
Sir Graham Brady, Damian Green and Robert Goodwill, suggesting it has
some tacit whips’ support. The EU has thus far refused to countenance
putting any exit date in
the backstop arrangement but the amendment could act as further proof
that the deal will not pass parliament without one. The amendment will
not pass the Commons because it does not have
Labour frontbench support, but No 10 is likely to watch to see how much
support the ploy will attract.
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