Tory MPs’ no-deal fetish will make a cross-party Brexit solution impossible | Rafael Behr

Today’s indicative votes are too little, too late: none can achieve enough Conservative backing to stick

The number of Conservative MPs who are prepared to take Britain out of the EU with no deal is now greater than the total number of Conservatives elected to parliament in 1997. That is not the only way that British politics has changed since then. Parties have a lot of different positions over 22 years, but the capture of the Tories by no-dealism has happened within 22 months.

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