Today’s political headlines covers Bercow ruling out a third meaningful\u00a0vote, Brexiteers threaten strike, EU offers May helping hand and social media firms to be forced to hand over algorithms.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Bercow rules out another meaningful vote Brexiteers threaten strike over delay EU offers May \u2018helping hand\u2019 Social media firms to be forced to hand over algorithms Industrial strategy criticised by MPs Jewish Labour Movement to hold no confidence vote in Corbyn Lord Forsyth criticises loan charge Electric scooters could be allowed on roads
\n<\/strong>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0that the Government has been \u2018plunged into constitutional chaos\u2019 after Speaker John Bercow ruled that another meaningful vote on Theresa May\u2019s Brexit deal would fall foul of a parliamentary convention dating back to 1604 which prevents MPs from voting on the same deal twice, suggesting that for a further vote to be allowed, the EU would have to agree to changes to the deal and that May will be forced to request a long extension to the Brexit negotiations. However, the Commons could use a \u2018paving vote\u2019 to set aside the convention, if it did wish to vote for May\u2019s deal, while Solicitor General Robert Buckland suggested that the Government could end the parliamentary session early and begin a new one in order to re-run the vote.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The Sun\u00a0<\/em>claims<\/a>\u00a0that as many as twenty \u2018hardline\u2019 Brexiteers have threatened to go \u2018on strike\u2019 on key votes if Theresa May agrees a year-long Brexit delay with the EU, pushing the Government to the \u2018verge of collapse\u2019. The paper has also\u00a0conducted<\/a>\u00a0a survey of Conservative MPs who voted against May\u2019s deal, and two-thirds of those who responded confirmed they would not back it if it was brought back to the Commons unamended.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>says<\/a>\u00a0that the EU is to give Theresa May \u2018a helping hand\u2019 by formally agreeing the length of the Brexit extension at its summit on Thursday and keeping this on offer until just before midnight on 29 March, when the UK is currently due to leave. Changing the date that the UK leaves the EU might be sufficient for John Bercow to allow the Government to hold another meaningful vote.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The Daily Telegraph\u00a0<\/em>says<\/a>\u00a0that the Government\u2019s forthcoming white paper on online harms will give a new regulator the power to force firms to hand over algorithms showing how people are targeted with content based on their personal details, which may \u2018reveal their role in fuelling self-harm and suicides\u2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0carries details<\/a>\u00a0of a critical report by the Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on the Government\u2019s industrial strategy. It warns that there is a risk that the strategy will fail in its efforts to improve productivity levels because it is focusing on innovative sectors but neglecting others, such as hospitality and retail, and is too focused on London and South East England.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The Times\u00a0<\/em>says<\/a>\u00a0the Jewish Labour Movement, the Jewish affiliate of the Labour Party will debate a vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn at its annual meeting in April. The motion says the party has a \u2018culture of antisemitism\u2019 and that Corbyn \u2018is directly responsible\u2019 so a \u2018Labour government led by him would not be in the interest of British Jews\u2019.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Speaking<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>, Lord Forsyth, Chair of the Lords Economics Affairs Committee, calls on the Government to scrap the retrospective aspect of the loan charge because \u2018ordinary people are being ruined\u2019. He argued that it should instead pursue the developers of tax avoidance schemes and the employers who used them.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The Times\u00a0<\/em>reports<\/a>\u00a0that the Government will\u00a0 launch a \u2018wide-ranging review of traffic laws\u2019 which could see electric scooters allowed on the roads for the first time and the speed limit for electric bicycles increased. The plans are contained in the Department for Transport\u2019s\u00a0Future of Mobility: Urban Strategy<\/em>, published today.<\/p>\n