Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs and the first day of the Brexit debatePM may have to draw up new deal three days after Commons defeatExplained: what to expect from the Brexit debate and final vote 1.51pm GMT Crispin Blunt, a Tory, says Bercow originally said he would only serve nine years. He has also been the subject of bullying allegations, Blunt suggests. (He refers to the Laura Cox report.) And he says Blunt has expressed his views on Brexit (he backed remain). Blunt goes on:For many of we will now have the unshakeable conviction that the referee of our affairs … is no longer neutral. 1.47pm GMT Bercow says it is not his job to push through a particular policy. It is simply his job to facilitating allowing the House of Commons to take its own decisions. That is what he is doing, and that approach should apply to Brexit too, he says. Continue reading…
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