The prime minister has little chance of winning Tuesday’s vote on her Brexit deal. But at least defeat will open up possible escape routes from this nightmare
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
As Theresa May rides towards an all but certain defeat in parliament this week, some of her more historically minded colleagues are likening the prime minister to the doomed Charge of the Light Brigade. That’s a little unfair. The Crimean war commanders of that suicidal assault on Russian guns didn’t know they had ordered a disaster. By contrast, Mrs May is fully conscious that she is galloping into the valley of parliamentary death. She has been given ample warnings that the cannon of the hard Brexiters are to the right of her, the cannon of the unreconciled Remainers are to the left, and the cannon of the opposition parties are in front of her. She won’t be able to say she wasn’t told. She will not be able to make a fall guy of the chief whip, Julian Smith, and blame him for messing up the maths. He’s done the numbers and told the prime minister that the chances of success are bleak.
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