School of Politics and International Relations

Theresa May suffers parliament defeats ahead of key vote: Brexit update

10 December 2018

Theresa May has been defeated in three key votes in Parliament as she battles to get her Brexit deal through. Parliamentary rebellions expert Professor Philip Cowley, said he thinks the last time a government lost three votes in one day was 40 years ago, in 1978. That was a minority Labour government, on the question of how a vote on Scottish devolution should be run.

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