Brexit Secretary David Davis (Picture: PA)

The final Brexit deal will be put to MPs for a vote, Brexit minister David Davis confirmed today.

If MPs vote against it, we will leave the EU with no deal.

He clarified the risk of leaving with nothing when Tory former minister Owen Paterson asked: ‘If the House of Commons votes down the new withdrawal bill, will the consequence be we still leave on March 29 2019, but without an agreement?’

Mr Davis replied: ‘Yes.’


Prime Minister Theresa May has been under pressure to offer parliament the chance to have a ‘meaningful vote’ on whatever the terms our of Britain leaving the EU.



Tory rebels threatened to vote against necessary legislation to leave if this didn’t happen.

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To try and appease them, Davis said MPs would now get the chance to debate and scrutinise any final Brexit agreement.

‘I can now confirm that once we’ve reached an agreement we will bring forward a specific piece of primary legislation to implement that agreement,’ he told parliament.

But he was accused of offering a ‘sham offer’ because it was all or nothing without the chance to send negotiators back to talks.

We might leave the EU with no deal (Picture: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA)

Labour former minister Chris Leslie added: ‘Totally worthless to Parliament, essentially trying to buy off people by saying: ‘Oh look, we’re going to give you an act to shape things’, when in fact this is a post hoc, after-the-horse-has-bolted piece of legislation.

‘We might have left the European Union, the treaty and the deal would have been done and Parliament could do nothing at all to shape the nature of that withdrawal agreement.

‘(Mr Davis) has to do much better than this. Parliament must have a say on that withdrawal agreement before we are thrown over the cliff edge.’

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