To judge by the looks on the faces of many on the government benches, John Bercow came dangerously close to becoming the eighth. Bercow was a remainer to his core and he had only granted the amendment in the hope of making a no deal less likely. Not that it would, because Bercow wasn’t stupid enough to select a contentious amendment that wouldn’t get passed. Failing Grayling is a method loser worthy of an Oscar | John Crace Read moreLabour MPs weren’t slow to come up with points of order of their own. He would also lose the Brexit vote next Tuesday and now the one the following week.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2019 18:45 UTC