The art of the U-turn: May scrambles to avoid Brexit bill defeat

The prime minister’s heavily dented authority takes yet another dinkAnother day, another Commons confrontation flunked. Theresa May has turned the last-minute swerve into an art form – and by persuading Dominic Grieve, if not all of his band of followers, to swing behind the government on Wednesday, she avoided yet another much-anticipated showdown.As so often in recent days, both sides of the Brexit civil war now raging in the Tory party declared victory. Continue reading...