Britain faces either cancelling Brexit or crashing out without a deal if MPs vote down Theresa May ’s deal for a fourth time, Tory Liam Fox has warned.
In a speech to the Institute for Government, the Tory Trade Secretary said MPs needed to consider the consequences of their actions.
It comes after Number 10 revealed plans to bring Mrs May’s withdrawal agreement back to the commons in early June.
"Members of Parliament will need to look and see whether they want to continue down a path which inexorably takes us either to the potential of revocation of Article 50 or leaving without a deal and asking if they think that is the best course?" Fox said.
"I hope my colleagues will take the opportunity ... to follow what I think was not advice but an instruction from the voters and they will have to consider what the political consequences would be of failing to carry out their part of the bargain."
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MPs will vote on a law called the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the House of Commons in the week of June 3.
Yet Mrs May is unlikely to win it after talks with Labour remained in deadlock.
It sets up a dramatic showdown between the embattled leader and MPs in the same week as Donald Trump's UK State Visit and a knife-edge by-election in Peterborough.
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But for non-politics-geeks it's easy to get lost in the endless stream of votes and factional battles.
So here's an explanation of what the new announcement is, what it means in practice and what happens next.
