Don't buy the hype: Boris Johnson's Brexit deal did not win approval | Jonathan Freedland
MPs have voted for the bill to go forward, but that doesn’t mean they all back it – or that the saga is ending any time soonIt’s not over. For a few anxious, or jubilant - depending on which tribe you belong to – minutes between 7.15pm and 7.30pm, it seemed as if the Brexit saga might just be on the verge of resolution, after three and a half agonisingly long years. The House of Commons voted to allow Boris Johnson’s withdrawal agreement bill to advance to the next stage, a prize that had eluded Theresa May not once, not twice, but three times.What’s more, MPs gave it a green light more emphatically than even the most ardent Brexiters had dared hope. While May had been crushed by triple-figu...
