David Davis has stunned MPs by warning they may not get a vote on any Brexit deal until after Britain has left the European Union. [...]
Asked if that meant the promised Parliamentary vote on the agreement could be delayed until after Brexit Day, in March 2019, Mr Davis replied: “Yes, it could be”.
The threat blows out of the water the Prime Minister’s repeated pledge of a vote – although she insisted it would not allow Parliament to halt withdrawal.
A cross-party alliance of MPs is attempting to amend the Brexit Bill to require that vote to be a separate Act of Parliament, to give Parliament more muscle. [...]
Earlier, Mr Davis acknowledged that major banks are threatening to move out of London to Frankfurt, Paris or Dublin if there is no deal “by March or April next year”.
He argued they would not incur that huge cost, if a transition deal looks likely, but admitted: “They might reduce the size of the office.”
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