“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again.” Every British schoolchild has been brought up on this idiom. Theresa May is clearly no exception. She tried to get her deal through the House of Commons three times, and three times she was defeated. There’s another adage, allegedly American: “If you’re in a hole, stop digging.” All that May achieved was to dig her own political grave. The tombstone will read “Brexit means Brexit” — except it didn’t.
What now? The test of any political system is how it copes with an issue that divides the nation. Brexit split not only the nation but also both the Conservative and Labour parties. Without a written constitution, and with a sovereign parliament, there are two requirements for major change in Britain. The first is a public mandate. And the second is a working majority in the House of Commons to implement that mandate.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7o7jOqKSbnaKce6S7zGitop2nZK6zwMico56rX2d9coWMaWxma2Bkuqa%2B1bKlZqOZo7Ruu81mn6ivXZe%2FpsTIrWSbqp%2Bgsm6u0aKroquYYr2wuMitoJyr