MPs should be invited to say what Brexit option they would agree if the Commons votes down Theresa May’s deal, the business secretary, Greg Clark, has said, becoming the latest cabinet minister to suggest this as a potential way out of the impasse. With numerous members of May’s cabinet pushing their competing Brexit plans in the final week of parliament before Christmas, Clark said it was time for MPs to be more proactive. “One way or another, parliament has got to move from essentially being critics of the agreement,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “It is obviously easy to find things you don’t like. But I think every MP now needs to regard themselves as responsible participants.” May will brief the Commons on Monday about her failed efforts to win new concessions from EU leaders at last week’s Brussels summit. In extracts of her comments released overnight, the prime minister urged MPs to not back a second referendum. “Let us not break faith with the British people by trying to stage another referendum,” she is expected to say. “Another vote, which would do irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics, because it would say to millions who… Read full this story
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